The Soo Locks are pretty cool. They are actually building a new larger one right now. I wrote a post about them a while ago when we made a visit there a few years ago. After 9/11 things got really restricted and you can't just walk up to the locks now like you used to be able to. They have military barricades and those bullards that shoot up from the ground now to keep vehicles with bombs from getting too close. If you head to the tip of Whitefish Pointe just north of Paradise Michigan, they have a shipwreck museum there. The give the Edmund Fitzgerald a pretty hefty amount of attention there. I also wrote a post about the museum a few years ago. I've been to both those areas probably dozens of times since I was a kid.
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Also the premise that there are islands in the Great Lakes where people live always fascinates me as well. I have done quite a bit of research about real estate in Northern Michigan. I really like it up there but the UP is losing population. For me it might be more about visiting regularly unless things really get bad. Like Nuclear strikes and I have to go way North.