After completing my medical appointments at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, on our drive East to Royal Oak, Michigan, Patti and I spent a fair amount of time in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
Iron Mountain, Michigan, was one city we stayed in for a few days.
Tom Izzo (basketball) and Steve Mariucci (football) are two sports coaches of significant stature. Iron Mountain is proud to call them 'native sons'.
"About the above title Captain? Bats? What on this good earth do you mean?" / sign me 'Zilla /
Gee I thought you'd never ask 'Zilla.
What is a Bat? Bats are mammals.
Below is a closer look at the upper left side of the above information plaque.
Why Do Bats Hibernate?
Below are closeup photos of the above information plaque.
Let's begin with the below extremely interesting Bat Fact.
A close up of the Cool Bat Facts.
The various species of the Millie Mine Bats.
Below is a close up of the above photo.
Below is a close up of the above photo.
Below are photos from a distance of the informational plaques that I showed in the above close ups.
"The time has come" your Captain says "to begin at the beginning."
We owe all of this to Trip Advisor. Patti and I looked for 'Things To Do In Iron Mountain, Michigan'.
And up popped, can you imagine this, visiting the Millie Mine Bat Viewing Site.
The Millie Mine is a now abandoned iron ore mine.
A spelunker, such as Steve Smith, is a person who explores caves, especially as a hobby. As you can read below, Steve Smith discovered the Millie Mine colony.
The Millie Mine site also has a very pleasant hiking trail known at the Millie Hill Trail.
Below you see the informational plaque above in the distance.
Your reward for hiking out to the end of the Millie Hill Trail are overviews looking out at, and down upon, Iron Mountain.
The walk back to the Millie Mine site.
And we are back to the parking lot and the Millie Mine site.
It is difficult (almost impossible) to see clearly, but on the upper extreme right edge of the above photo is the actual Millie Mine site. You can see the fence that surrounds the entrance to the mine.
The below photos show the barricaded entrance to the mine shaft.
At last we have arrived at the purpose of visiting the Millie Mine Bat Viewing site.
Where exactly do you see the Bats?
If you are extremely lucky to see them at all, you will see them at dusk as they are coming up from and returning back down into the Millie Mine site at the security barricade.
I did not even catch so much as one instantaneous glimpse of a Bat and I was out there at both dawn and at dusk. Your very own Captain may have a case of Bats in his belfry.
Smiling,
Patti and Cap.
Iron Mountain, Michigan, was one city we stayed in for a few days.
Tom Izzo (basketball) and Steve Mariucci (football) are two sports coaches of significant stature. Iron Mountain is proud to call them 'native sons'.
"About the above title Captain? Bats? What on this good earth do you mean?" / sign me 'Zilla /
Gee I thought you'd never ask 'Zilla.
What is a Bat? Bats are mammals.
Below is a closer look at the upper left side of the above information plaque.
Below are closeup photos of the above information plaque.
Let's begin with the below extremely interesting Bat Fact.
A close up of the Cool Bat Facts.
The various species of the Millie Mine Bats.
Below is a close up of the above photo.
Below is a close up of the above photo.
Below are photos from a distance of the informational plaques that I showed in the above close ups.
"The time has come" your Captain says "to begin at the beginning."
We owe all of this to Trip Advisor. Patti and I looked for 'Things To Do In Iron Mountain, Michigan'.
And up popped, can you imagine this, visiting the Millie Mine Bat Viewing Site.
The Millie Mine is a now abandoned iron ore mine.
A spelunker, such as Steve Smith, is a person who explores caves, especially as a hobby. As you can read below, Steve Smith discovered the Millie Mine colony.
The Millie Mine site also has a very pleasant hiking trail known at the Millie Hill Trail.
Below you see the informational plaque above in the distance.
Your reward for hiking out to the end of the Millie Hill Trail are overviews looking out at, and down upon, Iron Mountain.
The walk back to the Millie Mine site.
And we are back to the parking lot and the Millie Mine site.
It is difficult (almost impossible) to see clearly, but on the upper extreme right edge of the above photo is the actual Millie Mine site. You can see the fence that surrounds the entrance to the mine.
The below photos show the barricaded entrance to the mine shaft.
At last we have arrived at the purpose of visiting the Millie Mine Bat Viewing site.
Where exactly do you see the Bats?
If you are extremely lucky to see them at all, you will see them at dusk as they are coming up from and returning back down into the Millie Mine site at the security barricade.
I did not even catch so much as one instantaneous glimpse of a Bat and I was out there at both dawn and at dusk. Your very own Captain may have a case of Bats in his belfry.
Smiling,
Patti and Cap.
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