July 15, 2019 - Copper Harbor to Big Bay

We weren’t sure if we would spend one more day in Copper Harbor or not.  It wasn’t obvious from the weather report last evening if it would be a move day.  However the storms passed through Copper Harbor earlier that originally planned so we departed and basically followed the storms as they headed east.  Our travels took us around the tip of the Keweenaw Peninsula and then south.  I always think of the tip of the peninsula as a point of land, but that is not the case.  At its narrowest point it is still over two and a half miles wide, just a long slow curve around.

We arrived in Big Bay in the early afternoon.  Fred and I decided to explore town as there was supposed to be a couple of restaurants, a corner store and maybe an outfitter type shop.  Well, not so much.  One restaurant was closed on Mondays and there were no stores of any type (there were a couple of buildings that might have once been stores, but not anymore).  The second restaurant in town was a bar and so we checked the menu and hours and planned to come back for dinner.  Dinner was okay, but if I was giving out stars they wouldn’t get many.  This part of the upper peninsula is a little bit quiet in the summer - their big thing is catering to the snowmobiling crowd in the winter.

A line of thunderstorms came through in the evening just before dark.  We added some extra dock lines and a few more fenders and then watched the clouds fly past.  

The "end" of the Keweenaw Peninsula and some rain

Rain over Manitou Island (off the end of the
Keweenaw Peninsula)

Another "end" of the Keweenaw Peninsula

Lake Superior at its deepest is over 1300 feet deep.
We saw 446 feet on the depth gauge today.

The storm blowing into Big Bay