Castle Rock Back to Yak on the road Visit Paul Bunyan and Babe at Castle Rock Photos by Per Kjeldsen One of the Yak's favorite things to do on trips is visit natural wonders and tourist attractions built for fun. Castle Rock , near the Mackinac Bridge in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, is both. Babe the Blue Ox. Paul and Babe are gigantic. If they were to come alive, they would look like giants posing near the castle-shaped rock.
Some people think tourist attractions are silly.
But the Yak likes them because each has a story. The statue of Paul and Babe was built in the 1950s by Calvin Tamlyn, a man who liked to make things. He made wooden totem poles, too. Paul Bunyan, by the way, wasn't a real person. He's a legendary hero, a giant lumberjack of superhuman strength who someone made up a long time ago.