Our late July 2016 trip to Lake Superior continued with a 2½ hour cruise along Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore. Pictured Rocks Cruises, a park service concessionaire, departs from the dock in Musining, Michigan on an hourly basis from 10 AM until 8 PM during the summer. Spring and Fall schedules are much more limited. Because the weather forecast the previous day had shown a good chance for rain, we did not purchase our tickets in advance. Instead, we bought them at the ticket office and gift shop near the pier. Tickets for the cruise we took are $38 per adult (13 years and older). Seating is not assigned, so people queue up early to stake out their seats on the open upper deck or the enclosed lower cabin. The cruise employees were helpful and friendly. The captain pointed out many geological features along the shore and provided an educational and entertaining commentary throughout the voyage. This is a cruise we would take again if we are in the area.
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| Boarding the boat |
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| City Dock, Munising |
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| Underway |
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| Sand Point on the mainland |
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| East Channel Lighthouse on Grand Island |
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| Channel marker near Grand Island |
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| Channel buoy at Sand Point |
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| Isolated beach beneath bluff |
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| Sandstone bluff |
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| Sedimentary rocks of many colors |
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| Miners Castle |
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| Another view of Miners Castle |
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| Mouth of Miners River |
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| Miners Beach |
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| More of Miners Beach |
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| Looking back at Miner's Castle |
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| Kayakers in an unnamed cove |
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| Bridalveil Falls |
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| Painted Coves |
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| More Painted Coves |
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| A solitary tree grows on the rocky debris of the collapsed bluff |
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| Undercut bluff |
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| Mosquito Beach |
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| More of Mosquito Beach |
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| Caves of All Colors |
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| Lovers Leap |
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| Multi-colored bluff |
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| A small boat in Rainbow Cave |
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| Indian Head |
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| Grand Portal |
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| Shallow water at Grand Portal |
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| Battleship Rocks |
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| Flower Vase |
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| Cave in the bluff |
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| Chapel Cove |
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| Looking out from Chapel Cove |
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| Tree atop bluff in Chapel Cove |
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| Chapel Falls on Chapel Beach |
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| Chapel Rock |
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| Looking east along the shore |
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| More rainbow rock colors |
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| More shoreline caves |
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| Another view of Lovers Leap |
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| Kayakers at Caves of All Colors |
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| More of the Painted Coves |
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| Picturesque bluff |
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| Another look at Bridalveil Falls |
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| A closer view of East Channel Lighthouse |
The lakeshore website is https://www.nps.gov/piro.
Picture Rocks Cruises website is http://www.picturedrocks.com/.
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