Greenstone & Thimbleberry's Blog: Celebrating Father's Day and Joyce's Birthday with a Mini Camping Trip

Another crowded beach in the UP...not!

Last week I got in the mood to take short camping trip that would give us a chance to enjoy some of the beauty nearby. The thought of relaxing up on Lake Superior over Father's Day and having Joyce be able to enjoy her birthday on Tuesday was too hard to pass up. We checked the weather forecast for the next few days, loaded the trailer and decided upon a location. We left Sunday late in the morning. We decided to see if we could find a nice site up on Lake Superior at Bayview NF campground, with Monocle Lake as a back up. We arrived at Bayview around an hour after we left home. The campground has around 25 sites, with about half being right on Lake Superior's lake front overlooking Whitefish Bay. It was raining and very dark when we arrived. We found a nice lakefront campsite and were set up within a few minutes. By the time we finished lunch the the sun came out. We enjoyed the rest of the day enjoying the beach, sunshine, waves crashing and reading books. By evening we were ready to enjoy a campfire followed by a nice sunset.

Our campsite...looking from the beach bluff

Monday morning we we for a long walk along the beach and enjoyed most of the day reading and relaxing out on the shore. An evening campfire topped it all off, with a nice game or Phase 10 before turning in. Tuesday morning we headed down to lighthouse at Point Iroquois about 8 miles to the east. We ran into Ron Gilmore there and chatted briefly. Ron and his wife Karen go to our church and are working and living at the lighthouse as caretakers this summer. You'd be be hard pressed to find a much nicer place to spend your summer!

After enjoying the lighthouse and watching a freighter going by down bound for the Soo Locks we drove up to the overlook at Mission Hill a couple of miles away. Once again we enjoyed a nice relaxing day for Joyce's birthday on the beach followed by a nice campfire. This beautiful campground never had more than 6 or 7 sites occupied the whole time we were there. We got up this morning and decided we had relaxed enough and it was time to head for home.