A spruce tree and red maple find enough habitat to take root.

Dwarf Spruce
Finlander Bay is sheltered from northwesterly Lake Superior storms by Point Abbaye.

Finlander Bay
Huron Bay is located on the east shore of Point Abbaye. Mt. Arvon is in the background.

Huron Bay
The Huron Islands, located about 3 miles off shore, is now a National Wildlife Refuge.

Huron Islands
In 1939, Aldo Leopold wrote a report on forest management for the Huron Mt. Club.

Huron Mountains
Looking across Huron Bay to the Huron Mts.

Huron Mountains
Leopold recommended that much of the 20,000 acre forest be preserved. Today the land is a private reserve.

Huron Mountains
The Pt. Abbaye peninsula juts over 20 miles into Lake Superior .

The Point
The Huron Bay shoreline is rocky and largely layered sandstone and shale.

Huron Bay Shore
The passing storm is over Big Bay & Marquette where it was cloundy and 58 degrees. It was sunny and 70 degrees at Pt. Abbaye.

Clouds
Grasses are able to colonize cracks in the layered rock.

Plant Life
Lichens grow in the harsh Lake Superior envoronment.

Lichens
There are a few small rock beaches on the Huron Bay shore.

Rock Beach
Layered shale forms this tiny island just off shore.

Rock Island
Deep water is just off shore at the point.

Deep Water
Small flowers and shrubs grows with grasses on this sandstone slab.

Rock Garden


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