August 5 - Newberry

August 5 - Today we went to Pictured Rock National Lake Shore which if you ask me is a waste of time from the land. I'm glad they made it a National Park to preserve it. The Eastern side of the park has giant sand dunes with a rather fast and steep slide down. It's how the loggers would slide the logs down to the Lake Superior and is called a Log Slide. It has a disclaimer above to keep people with common sense to not try to slide down as getting back up can take an hour or more for those in peak shape. And should you get injured on the way down, rescue will be difficult. We did sand dunes at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore nearly doing George and Acadia in. And of course the super high dunes at Kill Devil Hills in North Carolina. We were able to view the slide from a lookout. We met these two young people with kayaks that wanted to know if we knew where the pictured rocks were and we said based on the map there was access to the lake 35 miles away. So at this point we decided to drive the 35 miles to the town of Munising to see if they had any cruises to the Pictured Rocks and they did, only problem is I had to buy the tickets for tomorrow at 10:00 AM. So instead of going to see waterfalls tomorrow we are going to go see the pictured rocks like they should be seen. The upper peninsula is mostly forests and farm land, at least where we have traveled. The only wildlife we have seen is deer, cranes, sea gulls & chipmunks. There are moose and bear around and frankly I hope they stay off the roads. In Maine every mile there is a lookout for moose sign.