Recently, while staying in western Michigan, near Bear Lake with our good friends Glen and Kathleen, they showed us the fun and interesting places in the area. They took us to see a couple of lighthouses on the eastern shore of Lake Michigan, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, and an artesian well known as Old Facefull. Not sure Old Facefull fits the definition of an artesian well, but I don’t want to spoil the fun for the locals.
First we visited Old Facefull. Ellie didn’t waste any time getting a drink of water. From there we walked down to the shore of Lake Michigan where Ellie went right straight into the water. I was not aware that Poodles were water dogs, but she really seemed to enjoy it.
A couple of days later, we headed northwest to Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore and the Point Betsie Lighthouse. The geology of Sleeping Bear Dunes is interesting to me. The sand that has accumulated here was carried by the wind from Wisconsin and Illinois, more than 100 miles away and deposited on top of a glacial moraine that was left behind as the glaciers retreated more than 11,000 years ago, at the end of the last ice age. From Sleeping Bear Dunes, we headed a little further north to the Point Betsie Lighthouse. Barbara and I always enjoy visiting lighthouses, and Michigan has more lighthouses than any other state in the US. On the way to the Point Betsie Lighthouse, we visited a small grove of giant sequoia trees that were planted along the eastern shore of Lake Michigan in 1948. Originally, six trees were planted, of which only four remain today. They’re not as big as the giant sequoias in California, but they’re not as old either. They are, however, just as beautiful as the trees in California.
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