Today, here on upper Lake Michigan, we had one of the most spectacular Autumn days ever. The lakes were like glass, with not a cloud in the sky.
It is days like this that makes it hard to imagine what it was like 34 years ago on the Big Lake.
Many people, who don’t know the fickle nature of these lakes,underestimate the sudden ferocity that can change these placid waters into terrifying monsters.
vid of the wreck http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZP8F1xdbr-I
Superior is beautiful but a real bitch to sailors...Huron also is quite a graveyard for sailors....
Last june I went to whitefish point. Ten miles from the point it was a nice 70 degree sunny day. By the time we got to the point and parked the temperature had dropped 15 degrees, wind had come up and it was so foggy you couldn’t see the lake from the edge of the beach.