Day 14 - Tahquamenon Falls

On the trip home we drove a little out of the way so we could see the Tahquamenon Falls. We headed towards the falls, through a town called Newberry, when we saw a sign saying the road was closed 3 miles up due to a forest fire. We were just talking about the sky, wondering why it looked the way it did. Jared had thought maybe it was coming from the falls. Instead it was smoke from a fire that has now burned over 10,000 acres and is only 30 percent controlled. We were only 7 miles away from this fire and we ended up having to going a lot further out of the way than what we had planned. The boys both had just woke up when we arrived at the Lower falls. We walked about a mile hike out to the falls. It was really neat. You could go right in the falls and the water was very shallow. Then we drove about 4 miles and hiked out to the upper falls. They were really beautiful - you could not go in this water. Jacob got very cranky on the hike back and in the fourth picture Daddy is having a little talk with him. He was understandable tired from the long trip. I took a picture of Jared driving a reading the map - which makes me very nervous. Jacob loves to look at the atlas.