Not you, THEM:
The boats. There are five of them. We're not talking little fishing boats, I mean BIG boats, of the cargo ship, 700-1,000 foot variety.
Boats like these:
I didn't have my telephoto lens with me, so you can't see them well. But they're there.
On the other hand, check out the clouds. They were sitting over the Lake like a blanket of fluffy roving, and you could see the sun at the corners of the blanket.
They were dredging the canal at the same time -- five boats and a dredging is a lot of activity for one morning.
Surprisingly, boat captains do not prefer to run aground while entering the port of Duluth.
Because we're Minnesota Nice, we get out there at the crack of dawn and dredge it for them.
There's a reason Duluth is the world's largest inland port. It has nothing to do with geography. It's that we're the nicest.
The Ice House is a fixture of the Duluth waterfront -- it's an abandoned structure that used to serve as a storage location for... ice. Ice cut from Lake Superior. So people could have cold drinks and keep their food fresh.
Now teenagers congregate at the top of it and jump off in the summertime.
Adults do not do this. If you are an adult and you're jumping off the ice house, it's time for a reality check, folks. You are no longer 17. The jig is up.
I can see a glimpse of the Lake from the second floor of my house -- I'm lucky to live two blocks from this beautiful body of water.
I will tell you something about the people that live here. We put up with a lot of flack about the cold, and there is definitely some cold.
But we never, never get tired of looking at the water. We never stop admiring the boats and the clouds and the ice and the waves and the breeze.
It ain't the tropics, but I wouldn't want it to be -- I sunburn too easily.
And I work with large quantities of wool.
