Fulton County

When you see this much water its weird that it’s not salt, living by the coast it doesn’t feel right to us, even the the seagulls seem confused though they were probably were to start with, how else do they get this far inland to Lake Michigan?
Really we’ve no idea but we can’t talk either, sitting by the lake with our seagull brains and wouldn’t you know it we’re eating chips, well I am, Rhonda’s throwing them at me and I’m flapping about trying to grab them in the sand.
There’s little waves rolling in at the moment though in winter the storms can get so bad they can sink the large cargo ships that sail on the Great Lakes. The waves, they say can get as big as the ones on the ocean.
So many ships have gone down there is a museum and one of the feature wrecks is of the Edmond Fitzgerald also a song by maybe someone like Gordon Lightfoot called The Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald. YouTube it, it’s a beauty.
There are lighthouses, beautiful classic styled ones all around and with the lakes being so large in almost every respect it’s the same as sailing the open ocean.

Places over here like the Missouri River, the Mississippi River, The Great Lakes etc are on such a large scale that we have passed dozens of other rivers and lakes that anywhere else would be held up as a national attraction (we certainly would and name it imaginatively too, like our Great Barrier Reef, our Great Dividing Range so we could call it our Great Big River or our Great Big Lake) but against these big buggars they seem nameless and get little attention, even the seagulls couldn’t be bothered, if they’ve flown this far they want to stay at the real deal.Read more