I would love to visit this place (Pictured Rocks, Munising) atleast once a year and what I like more is the fact that I get to see this with different people every time, and I get to know a new place in its neighborhood. Though people are different, their expression when they see gorgeous rock formations is the same. As I remember, all I got to see the first time was Miner’s Castle; second time, it was the cruise; third time, it was a tiny water fall at far end of Miner’s Beach and this time, it was a part of the cruise and Mosquito Falls.

Fall foliage looks quite away from its glorious peak but a bright, sun soaked day made up for it. We (Dr. Roberto Orlando, Dr. Ralph Scheicher, Kah Chun Lau and myself) started early (around 6.30 am). As did last time, early start not only gave us some good views of Sunrise, but enough time to stop for food (Marquette) and at every other place we wanted to. Breakfast in the breezy winds of a sandy Superior each along M28, lunch while on the Pictured Rocks Cruise, post-cruise walk to the same tiny little water-falls, a mile long hike to the Mosquito Falls, … were the events to be mentioned, apart from the usual visit to Miner’s Falls and Miner’s Castle.

I took about 400+ pictures, about 100 of them were part of a 5-shot burst, and have posted about 200 of them here. I recommend seeing them (the pictures, I mean), but only when you think you have sufficient time. Some of the rock formations might look similar, so look carefully for what’s new, and if you loose yourself dreaming about this heavenly place, you know whom to blame!!

Amongst other things, I got the blog-related problem solved today : I had some difficulty in including/using HTML tags in my RSS feed but an accidental cleaning up of my script (after a lot of Google!ng around), did the trick. All I had to do was to use CDATA thing and remove htmlspecialchars(trim around a defined variable. That meant that I could work on making my archives; that thing will be done by early evening and from then on, maintaining the blog section of my website should be RSS (really simple and straight-forward).