He’s at it again, H Donn de Yampert was up North in the Keweenaw recently with his drone over Eagle Harbor. What a great view of the entrance into the harbor that boats must maneuver to get in the harbor waters. You can see in the first photo especially, how the boats have to go through the small channel between the rocks in the middle. There are also guides on land to line up with, so you make sure you get through without hitting anything on your way through. It looks narrow in these photos but it actually isn’t as narrow as it appears. Still, though, you have to know what you’re doing. Fun to see the Lighthouse and other places from this angle, too.

The bottom two photos are Lake Medora on US41. It’s about 4.5 miles from Copper Harbor and is a great place to kayak when the winds aren’t howling. I don’t see it in these photos, but there used to be a picnic table on one of those islands that I spotted a number of years ago while kayaking around them. How fun it would be to paddle out there and have a picnic with no crowds. Of course you may have to contend with crowds of bugs though.

Michigan Nature Association shares a video called “Keep the UP Wild”. According to the lead-in to this video, the Michigan Nature Association, along with other organizations across the Midwest are working to protect more than 40,000 acres of the Ottawa National Forest with federal wilderness designation. They’re also working on the same designation for the UP’s most pristine places, including the Ehlco area, the Trap Hills, Norwich Plains, and the Sturgeon River Gorge, which deserve Wilderness protection because they are essential parts of what makes the U.P. the gem we know. We owe it to ourselves, to our children, and to our grandchildren to protect these lands as a legacy, protect these uses, and keep the U.P. wild.

These are so great! Makes me want
a drone. But I have a hard enough
time figuring out my camera phone.
Don't knew what I'd do with a
drone. Awesome photos!

Oh yes...we inherit the Earth from our children.
(I don't have any, but I know what it means)

Lake Medora was ALMOST named Mosquito Lake!~ (Don't
ask me how I know that..no clue..but I did work in
the Harbor for a year..so probably heard it there.
Decades ago!)

H Donn...those photos are so amazing...keep it up!

Actually, the channel to enter the Harbor is off to
the right of these pictures and closer to the middle
of the harbor. It has piles of rocks
stacked up on either side of the channel. I always
suspected the rocks were blasted out of the channel
and piled up on either side. However I can't verify
that.

Great pics and video!! Camped many times on the
first island on Lake Medora with my cousins when
were younger. Plenty of great memories.