On a hot Saturday afternoon with the temperature reaching 95, this beach probably has a lot more visitors even if the Lake Superior water temperature is still in the middle 40s.
In the sunlight and calm winds, you might be able to pretend the new layer of snow was white sand on a beach, but the imagery of a warm beach would be hard to maintain when the skin wouldn’t be turning red from sunburn but from frostbite in a bathing suit.
It probably would have been a nice walk along a sandy beach on a warm late November sunny day but with winds gusting to 40 mph, the water wouldn’t have been calm and waves would have been rolling into shore.
The shiny, sparkly glare from the water and ripply ridges of sand under the water surface is a better scene than the glare from ice and bumpy waves of snow covering the ground I saw today.