Amy, Antonino, Grandma, Grandpa, Aunt Susan, and Uncle Jim all drove to Palms Book State Park near Manistique, MI to see Kitch-iti-kipi - "The Big Spring".  It is Michigan's largest natural spring - it is 200 feet across and 40 feet deep.  Over 10,000 gallons a minute gush from many fissures in underlying limestone, the flow continuing throughout the year at a constant 45 degree temperature.   It is really a neat place - and we couldn't have had a nicer day for it.  It was sunny and about 80 degrees and since it was a weekday, there was hardly anyone else at the park so we had the ferry all to ourselves.

			This is the ferry that you can ride out to the middle of the spring to see the water coming up from the bottom.
This is the dock that you board the ferry from.	Looking down into the spring from the ferry.	Very hard to see in the picture but in person you could really see the water gushing up through the sand at the bottom.  The water was crystal clear.