Lake Superior: Gitchigami
Featured Work
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Autumn Leaves by Rita Chisholm
This is a watercolor painting that I quite enjoyed doing. I worked in the negative to create the individual leaves. It sure makes you think differently. The Autumn Leaves in the Marathon area are predominately yellow tones with the Moose Maple giving us our red colours. /
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Kama Pt., Nipigon Bay, Ontario by Vickie Emms
Top 2 in a challenge and featured in Lake Superior -Gitchigami – October 29, 2009 Overlooking Lake Superior’s beautiful north shore. Photographed from a regular wayside we stop at, Kama Pt. on Nipigon Bay, Ontario. Rising above Lake Superior high on the rocks is a beautiful overlook of the lake. We never miss stopping to photograph the view. This is taken in September when the fall foliage is at it’s best.
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Fall colours at near camp 81 road on Highway 17 - Ontario by Laura Lea Comeau
from the drive home today ( 10.8.09 ) took an extra hour to get home from Thunderbay to Marathon – because of all of the stopping to take pictures!!
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...atop Brockway Mountain Drive... by Lynne Prestebak
Brockway Mountain Drive is just west of Copper Harbor, Michigan and overlooks Lake Superior on one side and the beautiful landscape on the other. I was in Copper Harbor the last weekend of September, 2009 and the weather was so nice I had to put the top down on my convertible!
Recent Work
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Nipigon Bay,Lake Superior by Jann Ashworth
The north shore of Lake Superior (the largest of the Great Lakes of North America) has any number of beautiful bays and coves to explore. This was a lovely quiet evening in August, 2006, and shows Nipigon Bay,Ontario, Canada, just after the sunset.The air was so perfectly quiet that we could hear sounds from miles away, faint but clear. Sony DSCF828 camera.
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Summer Lake and Flowers by Jann Ashworth
It’s not hard to find lakes with lovely summer wildflowers anywhere in Canada. This one is a small lake near Terrace Bay, Ontario, on the north shore of Lake Superior. It was actually a nice place to just sit awhile and take a break from driving! / Summer (August) 2006 Sony DSCF828 camera.
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Sunset on the Grand Marais Lighthouse by sara montour
The Grand Marais Lighthouse has a certain personality to it and is great to photograph. On this night I was on my way up to the Boundary Waters and had to stop.
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Split Rock Light House by JimGuy
This historic structure is the most well known and most photographed light house on the great lakes located on the North Shore of Lake Superior Nikon D300, Nikor 18-200vr
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Come Out of the Storm by Kate Purdy
Sailboat coming in to Madeline Island on Lake Superior across the bay from Bayfield, Wisconsin. /
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Hometown glory by Angela King-Jones
A lovely weekend home. Found this gem and some others along the Northshore of the beautiful Lake Superior, right out side of Gooseberry state Park
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Lake Superior shot by Lynne Prestebak
Taken en route to Copper Harbor, Michigan
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Lake Superior, Sunset. by Michael Treloar
North Shore, Lake Superior, Minnesota, USA. Sunset
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pier by Lynne Prestebak
A pier in Eagle Harbor, Michigan…I love Lake Superior!
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Red House on Howtz by deBoer
Red House in mid-Autumn off Howtz Street in Duluth, MN. Date Taken: 10/18/09 / Exposure: 1/115 sec / Focal Length: 9mm / Aperture: F/3.5 / ISO: 64
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High Falls of the Pigeon River by OwlMountain
Also known as Pigeon Falls, is on the Minnesota/Ontario border, right off of Hwy 61. At 120 feet, it’s the highest waterfall in Minnesota. This was taken from the Canadian side.
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Harbor Lights #1 by AuntieJ
Location: Saxon Harbor on Lake Superior; Saxon, Wisconsin The sign at Harbor Lights. Saxon Harbor is located in Oronto Bay on the south shore of Lake Superior, near Saxon, WI. There is a county Park with marina, camping, sand beaches and high clay cliffs along the Lake. It is one of the best places on Lake Superior to find concretions, rocks of clay compressed and rolled by the glaciers. A stop at the Harbor Lights tavern for a beer or pop is a must. A lot has been done in recent years to improve the harbor and park. I remember when there were cottages along the beach and up on the cliffs, on the north side of the road. With the soil being clay, shore line is lost with every storm. The cottages were hanging over the edges; you could see the pluming sticking out of the cliff. I was always terrified to walk down the beach, lest a cottage finally give way and plunge down on top of me. Pity the poor saps who watched their property disappear into Lake Superior. Harbor Lights tavern has been relocated several times in the past. Historically, from 1808-30, Saxon Harbor was the site of a fur trading post by John Jacob Astor’s American Fur Company and is near the beginning of the Native American/French Canadian voyagers trade route known as the Flambeau Trail, a 45 mile/120 pause portage over very rough terrain from LaPointe on Madeline Island (Apostle Islands) to Long Lake in southern Iron County, where they could then canoe to the Chippewa village in Lac du Flambeau.
About This Group
Nov. 10, 1975; 7:25 PM: The Edmond Fitzgerald is lost to Lake Superior
FEATURES: October Challenge, Autumn Splendor
Wild beauty. Waterfalls tumbling fast and furious through a labyrinth of gorges. Rocky coastline. Sandy shores. Clay cliffs. Stone beaches. Thick forest. Delicate flowers. Changing colors. Changing moods. Four legged creatures. Two legged creatures. Shoreline ripped from the earth with every violent autumn storm. Water so cold it doesn’t give up its dead. A lake as vast as an ocean. This is Gitchigami, Lake Superior.
The Anishinaabe, also known as the Ojibwe or Chippewa People (North American Indians), have inhabited the Lake Superior region for over five hundred years. They gave the lake the name Gitchigami, meaning big or great water. The first French explorers approaching this great inland sea by way of the Ottawa River and Lake Huron in the mid-1600s named their discovery le lac superieur. Properly translated, the expression means “Upper Lake,” that is, the lake above Lake Huron.
Lake Superior was born of the retreating glaciers about 10,000 years ago, making it one of Earth’s newest major features. It is the world’s largest lake by surface area, third largest by volume and holds 10% of all fresh water on earth. It is able to hold all the other Great Lakes plus three additional Lake Eries and would flood all of North and South America by a depth of one foot/.3 meter. Lake Superior graces the shorelines of Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, U.S.A and Ontario, Canada; 350 miles/563.3k from west to east, and 160 miles/257.5k north to south. 2,730 miles/4393.5k of coastline would stretch from Duluth, Minnesota to the Bahamas Islands if straightened. It is home to wildlife, migrating birds, rare flora, lake effect snow, violent November storms, lumbering, mining, fishing, shipping, small isolated towns and native and immigrant people of hearty stock.
Anyone who spends much time on this greatest of the Great Lakes comes to love it. Lake Superior region can be a place of serenity and turn in a second to Mother Nature’s wildest fury. It is a different world. It is small town. It is wildly free. It never leaves your soul.
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