Water Falls and Rocks and Birds, oh my!Sep 19, 2009
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Miners Falls
Mosquito Falls - lower section
Mosquito Falls - middle section
When last in Munising, it was to jump on a boat to tour the Pictured Rocks. I also had time for a little side excursion to Miners Castle, but there is a great hiking area that is supposedly the best in Pictured Rocks NLS. The Upper Peninsula has over 200 waterfalls to see, so I decided this was the day to take some of them in.
I started at Miners Falls, just a mile hike round trip. Then I drove to the main hiking starting point for a few highlight hikes. The hike to Mosquito Falls was 2.2 miles, then it was a different trail to Chapel Falls but the same distance away. That trail continued on to Chapel Rock and beach but it was another 1.4 miles away. Mosquito Falls hike was a hike, but Chapel Falls was a walk on an old logging road, so I decided to continue on to the Rock. I ended up walking 7 or more miles at this place alone!
But, going back into Marquette, there were water falls that entailed short or no hikes, and even though I was tired and my feet were sore, I finished out the day with them. I was glad I did because when I got to Algers Falls along the roadside, the sun hit them perfectly!
But my pride of the day was seeing the hawk flying and capturing him in my camera sites! I was very pleasantly surprised at the quality of the closeup picture that I got, if I must say so myself!
