Late October Fourteen years
ago I made a trek to Duluth Minnesota, with my wife, son, and my sons
wife. My son and his wife were living in the twin cities, his wife was
going to school in Minneapolis. Duluth is on Lake Superior where large cargo
ships stop to load and unload shipments, very interesting to watch. October is
a good time to visit, less crowds and before the gales of November. The lake
usually freezes over (sometimes too thin, one January when Ice Fishing my
friends Trucks front right wheel broke through the Ice; but
thats another story)
We were staying in a 1950s
(or that may have been the last time it was remodeled) cottage right on the
west side of Lake Superior. As usual I wake up in the middle of the night
passing the clock on my way to the bathroom it reads Two, Two in the morning
thats Midnight at my house. I can hear someone zip and unzip their
sleeping bay; no its the wind blowing a branch up and down the chimney
(weird sound) I need to get back to bed (sleep).
After leaving the two pints
I had last night at the pub, on my way back to bed. I stop to look out the
Picture Window overlooking Lake Superior. A light blanket of fog lay over the
lake and after just a few moments lightning strikes. I rub the sleep from my
eyes, did I see a ship out there? Now I cant go back to bed until
lightning strikes again so I look to see what I saw. There were a few
strikes but they were way-out on the lake so no help to me. I could hear that
zipper branch again the wind was starting up again, across the lake it was
blowing fog across the lake. I still cant see what I saw, a ship or
whatever, just then another flash of lighting.
Now I see what I saw - it
was a ship well kind-a, the wind was not just moving the fog but the ship too.
Must be a Ghost Ship. With the fog gone I cant see not one but three
Ghost Ships. Yesterday at the visitors center the host was telling us of all
the lost ships on Lake Superior, more than One Hundred have been lost. There
was a song about one, The Edman Fitzgerald.
Back to bed for some needed
sleep; tomorrow looking for Lake Aglets, or am I asleep now?