Lake Superior is quite awesome. A favorite story of Superior is of a Norwegian cargo ship captain taking his ship through the Sault locks, going into Lake Superior. take this with a grain of "story', probably based in fact but, well, that's the beauty of stories.
Anyway - the lock keeper (or whatever the technical term is) told the captain he should hold up in Whitefish Bay for a few days, enough time for a storm to pass. The ship captain's response was something to the effect of "<expletive> that, it's only a lake!" and continued on across the lake.
When the captain came back through the locks a couple days later the lock keeper saw a truly changed man - someone who had no sleep for a week and was run haggard fighting the lake. The captain said, so the story goes, the seas were worse than anything the ocean had thrown at him.
As to the light - Mclain State Park Lighthouse, north entry of the Keweenaw waterway.
Feel free to post photos of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee
It does really show the power of the lake. I have spent a lot of time on the North Shore of the lake and it can change from being the most calm and tranquil place to the most brutal and scary place overnight. Any photographer who has not taken a trip to the big lake should plan to do so in her/his lifetime.
