Kitchitikipi Springs

Roger remembers coming to this natural spring near Manistique as a child - had to see it again. It is about 50 feet deep and the water is crystal clear, turquoise blue - a constant 45 degrees . There is a raft that is attached to a hand driven mechanical wench that pulls you across the 200 foot pond where you can actually see the springs bubbling through the sand in the bottom of the pool. There are big lake trout swimming around the fallen trees and a few other fallen items - cell phone and sunglasses!

I could write a book about all the funny signs we have seen in our travels. Wish we could have stopped and taken a picture of them! Two caught our attention here in the UP. We were travelling along a paved road in a desolate area - a lot of woods up here - hadn't seen another car in ages, no homes, no businesses no nothing - when we passed a gravel road with a sign a short way down that read "Watch for Pedestrians." Where they would have come from we do not know!!

This morning on our way out of Manistique we passed the "Honest Injun Tourist Trap." It looked like they had started a perpetual yard sale on the day they moved in 50 years ago - never sold a thing but added to their "inventory" of junk on a regular basis! I swear even the "Pickers" would have driven on by!!!