On a rainy November day, the sun peeked out for a short time to create a rainbow which I missed, but a sunny day viewing Rainbow Cave in the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore sounds much better to me after this wet day and dropping temperatures.
Rainbow Cave
Along a lake shore there are sometimes unique rock formations that stand out and where given names centuries ago. Miners Castle is one of the named points of the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore on Lake Superior but there are other interesting rocks which get ignored as people walk the trail to view the ‘named’ rock formation. But this ‘little’ rock, which is taller than I am, caught my eye and should get a name too!
Little Rock
Few waterfalls actually fall directly into Lake Superior but instead drop in elevation just before reaching its destination. But there are some which do, like Spray Falls in the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, which drops 70 feet directly into Lake Superior. You can’t hike around behind the falls since the cliff hasn’t been cut back into the rock and the lake it too chilly for swimming but the best views of the falls are from the lake.
Spray Falls
Cliffs rising 50 to 200 feet above Lake Superior for 15 miles south side are decorated or ‘painted’ with colorful streaks and are part of the Pictured Rock National Lakeshore. The 500 million-year-old sandstone are stained from mineral filled groundwater leaching out of the rock. Minerals like iron, copper, manganese, and limonite create the red, orange, yellow, blue, green, brown, black, and white colors.
Pictured Rocks
