Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore is in the upper left hand part of Michigan's Lower Peninsula.
What a place!
Yesterday we hiked up to a 400-foot-high overlook of the shore, at Pyramid Point, then took a winding trail through the leafy moonscape down to the beach, and found a great secluded spot. We're staying about an hour south, in Elberta. Lots of lakes feeding into Lake Michigan here, and genuine "singing sand," or actually "squeaky sand," on the beach in Elberta. High quartz content, or so I'm told.
If you're in Glen Arbor, an almost-too-cute tourist town in the heart of Sleeping Bear country, make sure to stop in at Cherry Republic. You can get all kinds of cherry ice cream, plus cherry pie, cherry cookies, cherry bread, cherry iced tea, cherry lemonade, BBQ with cherry sauce, cherry chicken salad. And so forth. there's also mail order (link above).
More beach-i-fyin' today, then on to the U.P.
Comment spammers: I'm keeping tabs and doing deletions, and blacklisting. All genuine, on-topic comments welcome, as always.
Posted by Matt Rosenberg at July 19, 2005 08:32 AM
cool pics matt..very very nice place to hang out.
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