Portage Entry!

Back in late August, we had the pleasure of taking a trip towards the tip of the Upper Peninsula and on our way, we stopped at a place called Portage Entry.

It is a long strip of dredged out water so that large boats can find shelter during bad weather on Lake Superior.

I don't believe I have posted these photos of Portage Entry for you before now, so before I REALLY get behind on my blog post photos, I decided to post them today for you.

Hopefully, your computer sceen is large enough to see the entire other side

of Portage
Entry and the lighthouse to the right of this photo:

There were tons of water wild flowers that I was not familiar with along the sides of the Portage.

Here is a little purple cone shaped one I really liked:

And another deep purple wildflower which I don't know the name of.

If there are any experts out there that want to tell us its name, that would be great!:

This sailboat was across from us on the Portage. I thought the whole shoreline was so picturesque!:

I probably posted this one already on another post, but I loved these spiked wildflowers that were there. There were bees everywhere on them!:

I just loved this lighthouse way on the end

of the opposite shore from us:

Another shot of those purple cone shaped water flowers:

Right when we got to the Portage, there was this old, antique boat at the first

boat tieup spot.

I loved it!:

All along the walkway were these huge bright orange tie up spots for the large boats to tie up to. I loved the rusty chains on one of them:

I could just imagine that old boat on the big roller waves on Lake Superior, water splashing over the top of the boat!:

We have lived in the U.P. for years and have never stopped to look at Portage Entry and we really enjoyed looking at the lighthouse, boat, and the many wildflowers growing in the bushes and along the waterway.

I hope you got a glimpse of its beauty from my post today.