Today, we went to the Whitefish Point Light station, located on the northern peninsula of Michigan on Lake Superior. The light station includes: a shipwreck museum, a gift shop, a fudge shop, the keeper’s quarters, and a museum of different boats and artifacts that were used to rescue people from the waters of Lake Superior. My favorite was probably the shipwreck museum. It contained articles from different ships that were lost in the lake, as well as different details about each wreck. Probably the most famous of all wrecks is that of the Edmund Fitzgerald. One of the largest ships of its time, it was lost in a once-in-a-century storm. The story is that the ship, carrying 26 tons of iron ore, acquired some topside damage. Water started leaking in, and then both radars were lost, causing the ship to need readings from a ship 7 miles behind it. Finally, after a chain of terrible events, the ship sank in 1975. Its bell was recovered from the wreck in 1995, and a brass bell with all of the crew’s names inscribed on it was left in its place as a memorial to the crew and ship. It was very interesting. We are leaving Michigan for the area of Minneapolis and St. Paul tomorrow.
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