So there is this place up on the NW shore of the Michigan lower peninsula call Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. It has been a well kept secret for many years (until Good Morning America blabbed about it) but my brother discovered it 40 years ago and goes up almost every summer. It’s basically trees, cherry trees, lakes, trails to hike, fresh air, more lakes, and the biggest sand dunes you ever saw– like mountains almost. Well, 2-300 feet high. The sunsets over Lake Michigan are gorgeous. Click on each pic to see it full screen.
Lake Michigan in background
At the top of pyramid Point, advice to not do it . . . but we did.
looking up from the bottom
the tiny beach once you get there– goes for miles, so pristine
the view from the arduous climb back up
The whole time I was there a monarch butterfly was around me. I got within a foot of him.
spectacular sunsets coming back from Traverse City
