#gichigami

[should-be-sleeping]

These clouds remember being waves. 🌊

[victusinveritas]

I think this is a somewhat subtle we're gonna respect native rights and stuff post from the park service.

[tumblboone]

Are the Great Lakes Really Inland Seas?

Well, yes. And no. Actually, it depends on where you stand, in more ways than one.

“Today, some Anishinaabe people refer to the Great Lakes as inland seas, but this is a new evolution in our language—English is impacting how we use our Indigenous language.”

— Michael Waasegiizhig Price, a Wisconsin-based traditional ecological knowledge specialist for the Great Lakes Indian Fish & Wildlife Commission

[baapi-makwa]

waawaate (northern lights in Ojibwe)

[vesperstardust]

[baapi-makwa]

back on the south shore

[baapi-makwa]

Video of kayakers narrowly escaping a Lake Superior cliff collapse in Michigan's Upper Peninsula is getting international attention.

The video, shot by Minnesota-based nature photographers Jon Smithers and Craig Blacklock, shows a large section of a sandstone cliff collapsing into the lake at Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore on Monday.

Van Ouellette-Ballas of Northern Waters Adventures, one of the guides, told WLUC-TV in Marquette that smaller rocks had fallen near the group before the massive section fell. He says they "thought we were at a safe distance" and were paddling away when the large collapse missed them by about 50 feet.

MLive.com reports Smithers and Blacklock were on a boat and Smithers turned a drone toward the sounds of the collapse in time to record video of it.

Blacklock tells WDIO News that he and Smithers have received video licensing requests from news organizations around the world.  ABC News is among the organizations working on the story.

The photographers are well known for their work in the region, with more information available at www.jonsmithers.com and www.blacklockgallery.com.

[baapi-makwa]

water was a tad colder than they thought it would be