Truly, a Superior Lake

This is my first ever view of Lake Superior, which I have wanted to see ever since Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by way of Gordon Lightfoot called the Great Lake they Call Gitche Gumee to my attention:

It’s sort of impossible to capture the mind-blowing vastness, but going out into it on a boat can help:

Even then,  it can take a lot of thinking and staring past a dude in a Rush concert T-shirt to try to understand that you are looking at three quadrillion gallons of water:

As the carved graffito on this Civilian Conservation Corps bridge duly notes, it was more than a dream within a dream:

Thanks, Henry; thanks Gordon; thanks anonymous graffito-carver.