UP! Adventure: Day Two Pictured Rocks

I've always heard that the Pictured Rocks are amazing and I often see the Pure Michigan billboards showing the kayakers around Pictured Rocks. So we knew we wanted to head to Munising for one of our days in the UP.

There were some trails and places in Pictured Rocks National Park that did not allow dogs, so we had to plan around Laila a little more on this day. We just looked at the park webpage for dog friendly locations. We started out the day by checking out Munising Falls.

After that, we went to Miner's Castle. Gorgeous! The water color was Caribbean. 

 After Miner's Castle, we headed to Miner's Beach. This was such a fun part of the day. Laila was a swimming machine. I wish we had grabbed a video of her swimming because it was so cute. She basically fetched a stick out of the water for about an hour. The beach wasn't very crowded and we headed further down, away from people so we didn't have to worry about our dog bugging anyone.  I did take a few shots of Laila at the beach on my phone.

We knew we wanted to do the boat tour of the Pictured Rocks, so Gil figured it would be smart to have Laila exhaust herself swimming beforehand (smart man!). Pictured Rock Cruises offered free pet kennels for people traveling with pets. So Laila took a little nap while we went on the boat. It was about a three hour tour (name that show) because we took the slightly extended trip out to Spray Falls.

Disclaimer: If you do not want to see a bunch of rock pictures, stop reading now!

The Pictured Rocks were really amazing and beautiful. If you ever do the trip, make sure to sit on the right side of the boat for great pictures. The crew was pretty entertaining, the narration was funny, but they gave a lot of cool facts about the rocks as well. 

Ok, here come the rock pictures (we took about a million)...

Spray Falls 

Lighthouse on Grand Island

The boat tour was super touristy, of course, but worth it. There's no other way to see the rocks like that. Now I want to camp at Pictured Rocks. It would be so amazing. During the boat tour, we saw some people high up on the rocks who were hiking and a few people swimming. Maybe next summer??