The Goat Pen

Emphasis on queen...

"Lincoln and Kennedy both have five syllables in their full name (which counts Kennedy's middle initial). "

Good god...

Have they gotten around to burning the Michael Jackson statue yet?

AlabamAlum wrote:No. Penn.


It's a sore spot with me. Let's not talk about it. My blood pressure is up just thinking about it. Need a benzo and a beta.

a good friend of mine went to upenn back in the 60's on a diving scholorship - nice school and philly can be a fun town...I went to 3 army/navy games there and had great times at each

hedge wrote:"Lincoln and Kennedy both have five syllables in their full name (which counts Kennedy's middle initial). "

Good god...

if kennedy didn't use that F he'd be alive today I tell you

I use that 'F' every time I think of Kennedy.

Just got back from my vacation in the U.P.

The ship my wife's grandfather was commander of in the mid 40's
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shipwreck we hiked to on Lake Superior
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eagle we saw nesting
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view from our campsite
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I loved it up there - I'm going back first chance I get.

eCat wrote:Just got back from my vacation in the U.P.

Did you meet the governor?

It is purty up there... in the summer.

Great photos. Cute kid. Tell me about the shipwreck. Is your daughter standing in water?

AlabamAlum wrote:Great photos. Cute kid. Tell me about the shipwreck.

Here you go.

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Heh.

no, she is standing on the beach

The Au Sable light house has at least 10 shipwrecks around it, two of them you can walk to . The water is crystal clear which is something I never knew about the great lakes.

The boat is called the Sitka, a wooden steamship that sank in 1904

Canadian I assume

I found this on them

Sitka and Gale Staples - The bones of the Sitka and Gale are mingled at Au Sable Point. The two craft were much
alike - both were double decked wooden bulk freighters. Each had two masts and were 272 and 277 feet in length,
built in 1887 and 1888. The Sitka stranded on October 4,1904, in heavy fog and high winds. Downbound and loaded
with iron ore, the ship ran aground, filled with water and was abandoned in heavy seas. Lifesavers from Grand Marais
rescued 17 men from the ship.

The Gale Staples was upbound on October 1, 1918, laden with coal for Port Arthur. Driven by high winds, she veered
off course and grounded on the reef. All hands were eventually rescued. Pieces of these two ships can be seen on the
beach just west of the Au Sable Light Station. Numerous other pieces of these wrecks are lying on the reef in shallow
water.

eCat wrote:The water is crystal clear which is something I never knew about the great lakes.

Not Erie.

eCat wrote:I found this on them

Sitka and Gale Staples - The bones of the Sitka and Gale are mingled at Au Sable Point. The two craft were much
alike - both were double decked wooden bulk freighters. Each had two masts and were 272 and 277 feet in length,
built in 1887 and 1888. The Sitka stranded on October 4,1904, in heavy fog and high winds. Downbound and loaded
with iron ore, the ship ran aground, filled with water and was abandoned in heavy seas. Lifesavers from Grand Marais
rescued 17 men from the ship.

The Gale Staples was upbound on October 1, 1918, laden with coal for Port Arthur. Driven by high winds, she veered
off course and grounded on the reef. All hands were eventually rescued. Pieces of these two ships can be seen on the
beach just west of the Au Sable Light Station. Numerous other pieces of these wrecks are lying on the reef in shallow
water.

Cool. In the pic, it kinda gives off a bit of the Arizona look. I'm going to have to do the UP one day.

its not Alaska remote but as far as I can tell there is no "big" city up there. Salt Saint Marie is big enough to warrant a Wal-Mart but most of the cities if you can call them that are just a bar and a gas station if you are lucky. And the bar takes priority over everything else. Every town had some place that sold hard liquor regardless of size

I can get into that rustic individualism though. It's easy to find acre after acre of untouched land there. We had to hike almost 2 miles from a primitive campground to get to that light house.

"The Au Sable light house has at least 10 shipwrecks around it..."

That must have been one crappy lighthouse...

Heh. I thought the same thing.

No tales of fishing? Snake hunting?

What kind of hilljack are you?