We started our day at the Michigan Welcome Center. What an amazing place, they love tourists! Of course my greatest need was a MI map. Then a few other things including a nine page list of waterfalls in the UP (upper peninsula).
Tom was amazed at how many Catholic Churches were within minutes of our hotel. We went to mass then a drive to Escanaba for lunch. We continued on to Palm Book State Park where Kitch-iti-kipi Spring is located. Kitch-iti-kipi is a brilliant, emerald green fresh water spring that is ~40 ft deep and 200 ft across. We took a hand-powered raft across the spring on a glass-bottom raft. It is amazing to see. You can see the water coming out of the springs, fish swimming around and lime-crusted trees. This water flows into nearby Indian Lake which in turn flows to Lake Michigan. No wonder Chicago water tastes so good! I remember Kitch-iti-kipi from my childhood it was so amazing to me.
Note Tom's Lake Superior lake going vessel, I'll let you know how far he gets.
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Hurray, an easy day for us. We checked into our cabin then searched for a nearby restaurant. We had baked fish for dinner, Tom got whitefish, I got walleye and we did a taste test. Walleye was wonderful! A buttery smooth tasting freshwater fish.
Most of the UP is on Eastern time, so now we're 3 hours different from home.
Most notable today, I got stung by a wasp while on the raft at Kitch-iti-kipi. It is almost done hurting.
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