• Friday-What'sUP May 25 - 09:03 pm

Bryant Weathers and his wife Stacy make good use of their kayaks, with adventures on the water at least once a week and last week, they paddled off to explore around the sandstone cliffs of Jacobsville. You can see the red stone in layers with the first photo, but it also shows the clarity of the water the Big Lake is known for. Lake Superior is amazing, in that you can see the bottom, even where the water is 10, 15, even 20 feet deep in some places. That's where kayaking comes in handy, since you're right on the surface with an excellent view into her depths.

Bryant also snapped a shot of the slabs of sandstone that litter the shoreline, where they've landed after erosion or rough Superior waves have washed them ashore.

The last photo is the Jacobsville Lighthouse, which is no longer a working light and is a privately owned Bed and Breakfast Inn. What a beautiful Lake Superior setting, from down below or from up above...thanks for taking us there, Bryant!

Awesome pictures!!

Can't post over on "What's UP", something's wrong.

Have a great day, everybody!

Awesome pictures over there, but Centennial #6 is beautiful!!

Several years ago I headed for Jacobsville but was keeping an eye on the gas gauge. So I turned around and never got there. It's definatly on the list for the next trip. Had no idea how beautiful that area is. Love the idea how seperated it was from any town etc. Another special place in the UP. Thanks for bringing it to my day folks.Gonna be a hot one today here in NW Illinois but my thoughts are in Jacobsville.

Jacobsville IS beautiful Kay...make sure you do get there. These are AWESOME pics Bryant!

I was up on the cliff overlooking that sandstone area one time with a friend. He said "Let's hit some golf balls"..so he hit a few into the lake and handed me the putter....I never even held one before...so I winded up and gave the ball a whack, and totally missed it, and the putter (whatever they call it) slipped out of my hands and went end over end into the lake. My friend looks at me and says "Get in the car"...we went home. LOL...sorry...but I told him..."I don't golf..."...he was warned! heehee

Awesome crossbeds in the first and third pics!! J

SO....if you are ever in that clear water, and see a golf club/putter down in the water...you know how it got there!!!

Better yet, pull them out.

I love my Jacobsville sandstone coasters!

"Crossbeds", does that mean two different kinds of stone, Capt.?
The cliff in the first photo reminds me of a slab of corned beef. ;)

I think a five-iron would have been more appropriate in that situation.

I recognized the stones! White color laid down in a reducing atmosphere, red color laid down in an oxidizing atmosphere. They use to be the Huron Mts in an earlier life. The good Capt. can add a lot more to this.

Oh how beautiful. I have been there by boat quite a few times but never close up like you can get in a kayak!

Hmmm let me see....

No Shirley, they are all sandstone; all one rock type.

Almost rowdy! The Jacobsville was laid down over a long period of time in an oxidising environment which gives the red colour. It is thought that later fluid flow through the sandstones followed fractures and joints in the rock. These fluids were very "reducing" in nature so as they flow through, they bleached out the red colour. In other areas, one might see perfectly round white spots in the sandstone with a tiny black dot in the middle. This is caused by micro-organisms in the sand which were also reducing in nature and bleached out the rock.

And actually, the Jacobsville has nothing to do with the Huron Mountains, but rather their source were the now extinct Penokean Mountains further south in central Wisconsin. It is thought that the Jacobsville was laid down on land in a stream/lake environment, also known as a lacustrine deposit.

Interesting, Capt. Paul, thank you.

Beautiful pictures today. Fascinating geology lesson -- thank you, Capt. Paul! I've not been to see the Jacobsville sandstone cliffs yet, either. (Was car-less in my college days and at the mercy of other drivers.) Will have to get out there to see them one of these days!