Progress continues on the online rockhounding adventures. I reorganized some of the content in the second adventure, which took a couple of days. I also created several new movies about the Lake Superior region geology. Today I'll put the final touches on Segment A and continue work on Segment B.
For Christmas my son and his wife, Kevin and Jericho, flew in from Vermont. I joined them in the Baraga, MI area, which is where Jeicho's relatives live. Thanks to all of them for letting me participate in their family's Christmas so that I could also spend time with Kevin and Jericho.
The day after Christmas, Kevin and I went and explored the area located north of L'Anse, MI along the east side of Keweenaw Bay.
In particular, we accessed three different beaches. The first was located on the coast of the U.P. mainland east of the Abby Point Peninsula and west of the Huron Mountain area.
Although the beach is a bit frozen right now, you could tell that it is much shallower of a beach than those in Grand Marais.
To the west you can see the end of Abby Point. The shoreline of the Keweenaw peninsula is beyond Abby Point.
Trees lining the beach...
The ice starting to build up along the shore....
North of L'Anse there is a little town that at one point had a sawmill that was founded by Henry Ford. Pequaming, an old lumber town was originally home to a Chippewa tribe. It was named for "Pequa quaming," a narrow neck of land almost surrounded by water. The water tower shown below still stands on site.
Next we stopped at the Second Sandy Beach.
Continued tomorrow.....
Are your movies available to view?
ReplyDeleteI wish I could answer yes. However,although there would be ways I could release the movies separately for free (such as through YouTube), I am going to wait to release them with the launch of the online rockhounding adventures. The movies have been designed to be part of the adventures, so it makes more sense to leave the project intact. I finished the first segment of the second adventure and will continue with segment B today. I don't think the remaining four segments will take as long to edit as the prevous five segments.
ReplyDeleteTheir are a number of rockhounding videos for the area out on You Tube.......they range in quality and informational level. I have one linked to my site (www.whalerockimages.com) Keep on Blogging......I have a BLOG as well but am not too timely in posting. Happy New year
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