Devils Day 13

Wednesday, July 20^th, 2005

SE wind and overcast.  We picked blueberries early and then went to the east landing with water colors.  Margot was a fairly accomplished water color artist in school.  Lots of boats passed but none came up to the lighthouse.  At least one stopped at the east landing because our binoculars disappeared from a rock near the landing and a pair of cheap sunglasses appeared in their place.  Diane and Margot kayaked the sea caves.  We watched a great sunset from the west landing and then watched the moonrise from the tower.  There is a crow that has been walking around the yard all day eating bugs.  When we walked to the east landing it followed us there.  Interesting.

 

Note: The edge of Devil's Island has billion year old bedrock exposed through it's surface. The red and gold sandstone was deposited over the area by wandering streams from western hills.  The undulating of the climate over about a million year period laid a sandstone crust that is about 1800 feet thick.  They are colorfully stratified.  Just as you might see ripples on the sandy bottom of a lake or stream; caused by wind, waves or current, the ripples on these rocks are from gentle waves that passed 1 billion years ago.

(Neuhfer and Dalles, A Guidebook to the Geology of Lake Superior's Apostle Islands.