Most folks have heard
the song by Gordon Lightfoot. "The Wreck of Edmund Fitzgerald". If you have then you might recall that
Whitefish Bay was mentioned in the song. The Fitzgerald met is fate Whitefish Point,
MI and still sits there today with the loss of all hands. There is a
lighthouse, a museum and gift shop here that does a brisk business built on the back of this tragedy. The area is also a bird sanctuary.
But what most folks
do not know is this is a great place to hunt for agates. Sandee and I spent the
entire day here and had our best luck of the entire three weeks we were in the
area. Of course Sandee was the better
agate hunter than I was and she proved it once again by finding several small
ones. She even helped a new agate hunter find her first Lake Superior agate. This lady asked Sandee what to look for and
how to go about it. Once Sandee explained what she knew about it, this lady
took ONE step away from Sandee and found a VERY nice Candy Stripper Lake
Superior Agate. OOOOO woo is me, I thought, but then the lady was a happy
camper and we probably hooked for life being a rockhound.
The beach area is
very large and rocky, just what one would expect when hunting for those
lakers. There is rocks all over the
place. So many it is hard to figure out
what is what and after awhile one rock looks the same as those Lakers, but to
the trained eye ( mine was not trained) you can find them.
I would say if you had only enough time to hunt for Lakers
in the UP ( UPER talk for the Upper Peninsula of Michigan) this is the place to
do it. There is not much in the way of hotels, in
fact I do not recall any. So the closest place to stay is at Tahquamenon State
Park. This state park is a keeper, all the bells and whistles and beautiful
water falls one can explore once you are done hunting for agates.
Tahquamenon State Park
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