The Shining Big Sea Water

This is from the Song Of Hiawatha : by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

By the shores 0f Gitche Gumee, By the shining Big-Sea-Water, Stood the wigwam 0f Nokomis, Daughter 0f the Moon, Nokomis. Dark behind it rose the forest, Rose the black and gloomy pine-trees, Rose the firs with cones upon them; Bright before it beat the water, Beat the clear and sunny water, Beat the shining Big-Sea-Water.

This is Whitefish Point, known as the Grave Yard of Lake Superior. Over Three hundred ships have gone down of the point including the Edmund Fitzgerald on November 10th, 1975. The weather was nice on this day but if you get a storm out of the Northwest the lake can turn into a mean bitch. As impressive as the Long Ships are, a Gale out of the Northwest can snap them like a dry twig.