Day 29-July 12, 2010

Today: 32.2 mi
Trip: 424.77

We had a slight audience of motel guests and passengers on the Isle Royale Queen when packing up this morning. We bid farewell to Copper Harbor and continued our journey down the Keweenaw. The shore was very rocky but had a row of emerging rocks just offshore so we were pretty protected in our corridor. There were many more houses than expected which made breaks more difficult but things were going well.
I had my trusty Keweenaw Water Trail map on my deck but grew suprisingly aware of the inacuracy it contained. I will hit the highlights but spare the details of my frustrating day with the map. Let's just be happy that at least Keweenaw was spelled correctly.
We passed a place called Devil's Washtub and a rock arch. I would love to describe them both to you, but alas the water trail map failed to tell us where these features might be. We were in the area at least.
Lunch at Eagle Harbor was a treat. We had small following seas which just pushed us into the harbor past a beautiful lighthouse (not on the water trail map) onto a long sandy beach. Afterwards we came on to Great Sand Bay (sandy shore) and then to Eagle River.
From this point on we tried to use the water trail map to find other useless information like a campground. We never found one and the other had a steep rock bank instead of the described sandy shore. We continued on past steep cobble beaches until we came to Gratiot River. There a less steep cobble beach greated us. We put up camp amongst a few families hunting rocks and a couple ORV's.