Lake Superior's Southern Shores

Unlike much of the rest of Lake Superior's shorelines, the eastern half of Michigan from roughly Marquette onward does not sit on the Canadian Shield.  The familiar granite outcrops appear everywhere else on the lake, but leave this shoreline portion with dramatic sandstone cliffs and massive dunes and beaches instead.  Other than the missing rock, much of the Upper Peninsula is similar in flora and fauna to neighboring northern Ontario.  Here is a beach and surrounding shoreline from somewhere between Munising and Marquette.

The end result, of course, is almost paradise.  Paradise, of course, is the Petawawa Valley of the Algonquin Highlands.   Then again, your author is a bit biased.   

Come by tomorrow for something a bit more western.