moving right along

 Day 6, heading west, our minds and cameras still full of beautiful images of the falls, we came to Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, on the shore of Lake Superior of course.  It was a little gray and drizzly when we arrived, and not at all crowded, but we decided to be brave and sign up for the noon boat ride along the shore.  Happily, the sun came out as we took the ride and we saw some fun and beautiful sites, including dozens of kayakers bouncing about in the waves.  I was not tempted to join them.  When we were planning our trip and I came across the name Pictured Rocks I thought it might be referring to prehistoric pictographs but that's not the case.  There are pictures and formations that look man-made but are actually natural occurrences. It really was quite an interesting ride along the cliffs. 

You may need to enlarge your view of this to see the "drawing" on the rock.

The strata was beautiful, even without any pictures, fascinating to geologists, like my son.  All of the layers are varieties of sandstone, tne hardest on top, which explain why the lower layers eroded.

Not hard to imagine this as the ruins of an old castle.