Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore

From the Porcupine Mountains we made our way east through the Upper Peninsula to Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore. Pictured Rocks is a long beautiful stretch of undeveloped wild shoreline stretching along Superior's South coast. It is named after the "picturesque" cliffs and rock formations that line parts of the shoreline gnarled, catacombed, and cathedral like. There are also many long stretches of beach, a few lone lighthouses, old weather worn shipwrecks, and many great patches of wild blueberries! amongst many other things...

We pitched camp on the Eastern shoreline near a place called twelve mile beach, as in twelve miles of white sand beach with nary another soul. Hemmed in between the forest and the blue expanse of Superior it is a wonderful place to wander the shoreline near dusk combing the sands for colorful rocks and driftwood and listening to pebbles grate and hum in the waves.