U. P. Trip - Fall 2010 - Day #7

This was the day we finally slowed down a bit.  The morning was bright and sunny but the middle part of the day was quite overcast and much more breezy, making us very glad we had taken our cruise yesterday.  The clouds eventually left but the wind stayed, stirring up the lake nicely by the evening.

With pressure absent we took the start of the day very gently and eventually boarded the van and cruised along to the traditional Miners Castle viewing platforms, arriving at the same time as the boat we had been on yesterday.  We looked from both platforms, getting a good start to the day's exercise, then we headed on down to the beach, going to the left this time, to where the very clear but very brown Miners River finally enters the lake up against the cliffs at the end of the beach.  Once Zoe was suitably exhausted (not a quick process) John fetched chairs from the van and we settled down to sit and read.

After a while the clouds moved overhead and the wind kicked up, so we retreated and to get away from some noisy site improvements at the parking lot returned to Miners Castle area to sit & picnic.  Eventually we returned to town, visited a couple of interesting gift shops, then went back to the hotel for a lazy afternoon of reading & snoozing.

In a repeat of yesterday we bought pasties for supper and drove a little way out of town to a lay-by and associated beach where we ate and then walked, and walked, while Zoe raced about roughly alternating between lake shore shallows, wet sand, and dry sand.  As we ran out of energy luckily so did she so we were all ready to return for a restful evening.

As usual pictures & a video make be found here on Flickr.