Mixter goes on a 3 State Waterfall Rampage!

This weekend, Mixter and I went to Duluth MN to see the hawks and eagles migrate. We made home base at the Super 8 in Superior WI. We explored Superior friday night and then finished off the evening eating at "GRONKS". Which lucky for us was right next to the motel. Saturday morning we went to the Skyway Pkywy in Duluth hoping to see HUGE flocks of raptors blackening the sky. Maybe even having to dodge some on their way through. lol Well what we had was poor wind and the raptors were thousands of feet above us. While the people with Hawks Ridge Observatory were happy and excited to see birds flying so high they were little black specs. I was not.

This is a picture I took of an eagle with my 500mm lense(750mm equivalent).

I think this is a picture of a juvenile coopers hawk right before they released it.

From here went went to a Gooseberry Falls MN State Park.

Hiked and hiked. Mixter was quite the trooper being under the weather.

This fox strolled down the road towards us, after we had called it quits.

We spotted these deer on our way back to Superior.

The next morning we woke up a little late, but made it out of the motel by 8AM. We drove to Pattison State Park WI. We saw the Big Manitou and Little Manitou Falls. Then we drove to Amnicon Falls State Park WI and saw those. A lot of minor hiking took place. Then we drove to Upson Falls in Upson WI. After that we had a big detour when the GPS coords for our next destinations were not correct. We ate at the Good Times Saloon in Hurley, were we got directions to a bunch of falls. So we sped off into Michigan avoid the border patrol as we did not have our passports yet.


We had to climb up and down rocks. Jump over water to see some very beautiful sights.

We hiked miles seeing 5 waterfalls of the Black River National Scenic Byway.

This otter was in the Black River Harbor swimming in the reflections of fall foliage off the opposite hill. There was 4-5 otters that did not want to have me take their picture. So they escaped under the deck Mixter is on.

We could hear them talking and splashing under there.


Then we moseyed on back on back to Mixters place to end a Great weekend. Mixter was quite the trooper this week end. Putting up with me driving in circles and hiking miles on end.

Plus doing a 1000+ stairs. @:-D