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Pictured Rocks Boat Cruise
 
Jasper Falls, normally not flowing in the fall, but visible this year due to all the recent rain.
 
The beginning of the wave action we experienced, which peaked at around 6 feet.
 
Thousands of years of minerals leaking paint the rock and create images and designs that give Pictured Rocks their name.
 
Miners Castle
 
Limestone and sandstone colored with magnesium, calcium, tannin, copper and other elements.
 
The waves create interesting sculptures.
 
Lovers Leap
 
Lovers Leap is one of the few remaining intact archways that has not caved in...yet.
 
Rainbow Cave, where a natural spring causes water to trickle from the dome of the cave all year around.
 
Indian Head
 
Caves carved out by waves.
 
These cliffs average about 200 feet high.
 
This collapse is the most recent, having occurred this spring. There is still a huge crack up at the top and more threatens to crumble.
 
Caves of the Bloody Chiefs -- story goes that indigenous folks would bring people out to these caves to die a slow death.
 
Cave-ins and collapses are common sights.
 
Stripey rocks rich in magnesium
 
Grand Portal, which caved in many years ago.
 
Chapel Rock, where a tree sits atop a rock, its roots spanning onto the mainland. This is where it receives all its nutrients from the soil. It once was an archway, but it collapsed and left only the tree's roots as evidence.
 
The East Channel Lighthouse and an incoming storm.
 
East Channel Light, no longer in use, but maintained by a non-profit group as a historical marker.
COMMENTS
Moorlerche said at 4:32 a.m. on Oct 17, 2009:
Impressive Chapel Rock. Once I read in a Canadian magazin (I think it was Canadian Geographic) that the needle trees, who are growing on rocks are getting their nourishment from microorganisms that exist 3 mm under the rock's surface.
Wildthing said at 10:14 a.m. on Oct 17, 2009:
Amazing pics of the mineral-painted rocks. And the last shot of the East Channel Light backed by autumn foliage is stunning.
NeusinhaGedoz said at 10:21 a.m. on Oct 17, 2009:
His work with photos is very beautiful. Congratulations.
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