Duluth

 

We have been looking forward to our visit to Duluth since this trip started. There are two reasons. First because it is a special place to our friends George and Jan who raised their family here. We are actually staying at a campground at a marina that was formerly George’s yacht club. Secondly, because we enjoyed our previous visit so much in 2009.

Here’s a shot of Irene taken from the Lake Head Boat Basin where we stayed. You can see Duluth’s famous land mark, the vertical lift bridge, in the background.

            

Here is a similar shot that includes the Lake Head Boat Basin as well.

            

This is our view from inside the coach.

            

Duluth is historically a shipping port on Lake Superior. Wheat and timber from the western states as well as iron ore from mines to the north were brought in by rail and loaded on lake freighters for shipment to various markets around the world. Much of the iron ore went to the auto industry in Detroit.

Here is one of the lake freighters coming into the port of Duluth underneath the vertical lift bridge.

              

The day after we arrived the wagon master had arranged a motor coach tour of Duluth. We went up on top of the mountain overlooking Duluth and George got these long shots of Duluth and the vertical lift bridge.

  

  

We biked Duluth’s water front trail. We had hoped to repeat our 15 mile ride on the Willard Munger Trail south of Duluth, but rain caused us to cancel our plans.