Recently, I was taking a vacation with my family on the North Shore. One evening after a long day of hiking and sightseeing, I relaxed in our resort and noticed a curious painting in our condo. It was a beautiful woodblock painting by James Meyer entitled “Whale Watching at Split Rock.”
The painting depicts a person in a small boat watching a humpback whale breaching way above the surface of Lake Superior just below Split Rock lighthouse. I thought to myself, how can a marine salt-water mammal survive in freshwater? Well, they cannot. But that does not stop people from fantasying about whale watching in the Great Lakes.
In fact, there are numerous websites on the internet that discuss whale watching in Lake Michigan, Lake Superior and Lake Ontario. Some charter boat companies even advertise whale watching excursions. One Facebook site claims it is the home of the Lake…
