And what about the lake? Marquette's on the edge of Lake Superior, right?

The Lake!! Is huge. And deep. It's the largest freshwater lake in the world. The other side of it is in another damn country. It's also freezing, most of the time, because even the hottest summer isn't going to heat up that much water. It's beautiful, and stupidly clear, however. Even far out on the water you can see clear to the bottom. Now, there are a ton of lakes, streams, rivers, etc in the U.P. It's said that you're never more than five minutes away from water of some description. So there's a ton of camps on rivers and lakes. Some people live on Superior, but not a whole lot around here. The lake shore is beaches, all public and what isn't beaches is woods almost right up to the waterline, basically. Then there's the Island, which is a gorgeous little touristy place but also frequented by the locals often. People get married there a lot. The breakwall! There are two. There's one at Lower Harbor. Lookit picture! And there's the one at the island(Presque Isle). A breakwall is a long concrete and stone outcropping out into the lake with a lighthouse on the end. It just stops the larger, insane waves from destroying things or the marinas or the like. They're pleasant to go for walks on when the weather is nice--however the one at the island even has memorials and warnings not to go out there during bad weather, because people have and have been swept away and drowned when the waves are bad enough to be going OVER the breakwall.

Lake Superior has a surface area of 31,820 square miles (82,414 km²) — which is larger than South Carolina. It has a maximum length of 350 miles (563 km) and maximum breadth of 160 miles (257 km). Its average depth is 483 feet (147 m) with a maximum depth of 1,333 feet (406 m).[1] Lake Superior contains 2,900 cu mi (12,100 km³) of water. There is enough water in Lake Superior to cover the entire land mass of North and South America with a foot (30 cm) of water.