Last Monday, Ellie and I climbed and hiked our way out to the green harbor light in Grand Marais. It sits across the bay entrance from the much more well known Grand Marais Lighthouse. In the picture above, you can see the main lighthouse on the left side of the picture, and the green light on the right.
This light is a lot harder to get to than the main light. We scaled two sections with large boulders, trekked over some beautiful rock formations, and hiked along a weathered cement breakwater. This one gets overtaken with waves much easier than the north wall.
In case you are wondering why Ellie is so wet in these pictures, she decided to take a short jump off one side the breakwater and into Lake Superior!
I took the above picture of the green light the previous week. It is a bit of an optical illusion. The goose is actually a long distance from the light.
One of the most interesting formations was the rock bridge below. It was shoulder width or smaller.
Ellie is not always the best at returning when called, but I felt safe letting her off the leash after I had to help her over the first boulder field (below). She had a great time running up and down the breakwater!
These two pictures are of Ellie when she decided she did not want to join me in the boulder field. A few minutes later, she let me leash her, and I carried her back through the boulder field to shore.
The final picture is looking back at the breakwater we traversed from shore. It was good exercise to get there. I recommend it if you are in shape. If not, take the path out to the main Grand Marais Lighthouse instead.
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