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Post by Sandbur on Jun 22, 2019 11:50:53 GMT -6
 But still a nice day on the North Shore of Gitchi Gummi. |
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Post by Freeborn on Jun 22, 2019 11:58:25 GMT -6
But still a nice day on the North Shore of Gitchi Gummi. The north Shore is always a sight to see. How far up are you going? Betty's pies is worth the stop. It's not the tiny place it was years ago but the pie is still good. |
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Post by Sandbur on Jun 22, 2019 14:23:17 GMT -6
It was full of people this morning due to the marathon. A badly marked detour in Duluth and the marathon made it a mess.
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Post by Sandbur on Jun 22, 2019 14:24:02 GMT -6
But still a nice day on the North Shore of Gitchi Gummi. The north Shore is always a sight to see. How far up are you going? Betty's pies is worth the stop. It's not the tiny place it was years ago but the pie is still good.  |
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Post by kooch on Jun 22, 2019 15:06:47 GMT -6
I love the North Shore. I'm a CA kid, grew up surfing. Little known fact, there are surf spots on the Great Lakes, and people that surf them. I used to be one. Just takes the right wind and a good wetsuit. Not a surf spot, but quite possibly my favorite place on the North Shore is "Iona's Beach".  |
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Post by Sandbur on Jun 22, 2019 19:03:16 GMT -6
I love the North Shore. I'm a CA kid, grew up surfing. Little known fact, there are surf spots on the Great Lakes, and people that surf them. I used to be one. Just takes the right wind and a good wetsuit. Not a surf spot, but quite possibly my favorite place on the North Shore is "Iona's Beach". Where is that at? |
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Post by kooch on Jun 22, 2019 19:09:35 GMT -6
Pretty sure it's just around the corner to the left of where you were standing when you took the shot of the little safe harbor jetty, if that is where I think it is. Up and over the bluff that's just out of frame left. That picture looks like "twin points" to me. I surfed there a few times in the Fall, years ago. Otherwise - here. goo.gl/maps/GCm85c5asuEV5XJj8 |
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Post by sd51555 on Jun 22, 2019 19:12:40 GMT -6
I didn't have AC after highschool until I moved to SF. When I lived in Duluth, you really didn't need it if you lived below the hill. But there were always about 2 weeks you wish you had it. One year when that hit, I was so miserable I bought some snorkeling gear and went up to Two Harbors to try a beach there. I had a rock hunter phase and I was searching below the water for agates. I almost didn't make it outta the water due to the cold. All I found was a car key.
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Post by kooch on Jun 22, 2019 19:18:42 GMT -6
I used to hunt agates too. Went through a phase where I was bumming around up there. I bumbled around that place, a lot. I'd sleep in a van, surf during the day. There are actually better surfing waves up there than you'd think. BUT, the duration of the clean surf is very short. It's very cold, as you know, especially in the Fall and Winter when there is good surf. We'd be in the water with ice, fairly regularly. This is a past life. Here's a picture I took right before paddling out alone at a semi-secret spot, a long time ago. For reference, the waves you see breaking cleanly on the inside were about chest high.  |
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Post by sd51555 on Jun 22, 2019 19:23:52 GMT -6
I used to hunt agates too. Went through a phase where I was bumming around up there. I bumbled around that place, a lot. Best spots I ever had was where there was road work going on. People that lived on gravel roads would go pick up ice cream buckets of them when the township put down new gravel. |
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Post by benmnwi on Jun 22, 2019 19:49:39 GMT -6
What do you do with agates?
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Post by sd51555 on Jun 22, 2019 20:04:51 GMT -6
What do you do with agates? Polish 'em and put them in a vase on your coffee table. If you have enough, you put them on the lake bottom of your walleye mount see through coffee table. Some people throw them in their landscaping. I have the vase.  |
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Post by batman on Jun 22, 2019 20:24:22 GMT -6
I used To fish the St. Louis river before it dumps into superior. Walleye were numerous and easy.
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Post by Sandbur on Jun 23, 2019 12:14:11 GMT -6
Pretty sure it's just around the corner to the left of where you were standing when you took the shot of the little safe harbor jetty, if that is where I think it is. Up and over the bluff that's just out of frame left. That picture looks like "twin points" to me. I surfed there a few times in the Fall, years ago. Otherwise - here. goo.gl/maps/GCm85c5asuEV5XJj8We drove by that and I said to my wife that we have never stopped there. Should stop. |
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Post by Sandbur on Jun 23, 2019 12:16:39 GMT -6
I used To fish the St. Louis river before it dumps into superior. Walleye were numerous and easy. I thought it always dumped into Superior.  |
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