Lake Michigan eastern shore tour & Sec. 3 101st Race to Mac July 20, 2009
Enjoy a flight to see some of Section 3 sail in the Chicago to Mac race 2009, and then enjoy the ride home via the Lake Michigan shoreline.
Mackinac Family Trip
It’s an island suspended in a forgotten, more innocent time. Relive the simple pleasures of life. . Stay the night. the time you spend here will be unforgettable. From its fine dining and luxurious lodging to its historic sites and fun-filled attractions, Mackinac Island has something to offer everyone. Rugged outdoor activities, breathtaking coastal views, carriage tours, and horseback riding are just a few pieces of the puzzle that make Mackinac Island a popular, all-encompassing travel destination. On our island, every day is timeless and every night is precious.
Mackinac Island is home to one of America’s oldest established national parks, Mackinac Island State Park, which consumes more than 80 percent of the island’s land and is open to visitors all year long. If you’re a water buff, Mackinac Island boasts great kayaking, boating, sailing, and fishing options; if you prefer to stay on dry land, you can take in the breathtaking views on foot, by bike, or by horse from Lake Shore Boulevard, which encircles the entire eight-mile perimeter of the island.
After a fun, adventure-filled day. Lucky for you, Mackinac Island has many popular night clubs with music and performances to suit the tastes of any visitor. Whether you’re into big band, folk, rock, country, jazz, or blues, our island musicians are sure to play something that will get you moving. The local pubs also host a regular pub crawl, a fun social event .
Flying to North Fox Island 6Y3, Michigan
We fly to the recently re-opened North Fox Island Airstrip 6Y3, which is located in the Lake Michigan, approximately 26 miles offshore from the mainland.
The island is absolutely beautiful and entirely owned by the state of Michigan. Camping next to the airplane, hunting and fishing are also allowed.
The island however provides no infrastructure, particularly no means of communication. It is therefore advisable to let somebody know where you are going and to make sure that this person knows who to call in case you don't show up by a certain time. To additionally carry a PLB and / or at least a SPOT also appears to be a good idea. Otherwise, something as simple as getting stuck in a soft spot in the parking area can quickly turn the day-trip into a week-long survival experience.
To wear life vest on the flight to the island, and to bring some food and water might also be a good idea.
Music: David Löhstana, Demain je change de vie
Cameras: 2x Hero HD, Hero 3+ Black, Sony HX9V
Cruising Lake Michigan between Sturgeon Bay, WI and Sheboygan, WI
The last leg of a 4 week boating trip on Lake Michigan. Video taken between Sturgeon Bay, WI and Sheboygan, WI destination Milwaukee.
1993 Searay 290, Single Screw with Macie the Dog.
Sept 2018
Belleville lake killer swans ....yikes
This video was uploaded from an Android phone.
Scouting Carp/Paradise Lake
A trip out onto Carp/Paradise Lake, in northern lower Michigan, on an ice bike while searching for sailable ice for the Central Regional DN Regatta of 2011.
Beach Drive, Lake Michigan, Harbor Springs, MI. 2016
Beach Drive, Lake Michigan Summer Houses, Harbor Springs, MI., Driving East to West from Pennsylvania Ave. toZoll Street. Nestled along the deepest harbor in the Great Lakes, lies the charming waterfront community of Harbor Springs. Discover the iconic and scenic Tunnel of Trees, stroll through beautiful downtown shops and explore lighthouses along crystal clear waters. Enjoy four seasons of events and activities for all ages in the Little Traverse Bay area of Northern Michigan.
Harbor Springs is a city and resort community in Emmet County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,194 at the 2010 census.
Harbor Springs is in a sheltered bay on the north shore of the Little Traverse Bay on Lake Michigan. The Little Traverse Lighthouse is a historic lighthouse on the Harbor Point peninsula, which shelters the deepest natural harbor on the Great Lakes. M-119 connects with US 31 7 miles (11 km) east and south at Bay View, and Petoskey, which is 4 miles (6.4 km) away on the south side of the harbor.
The area is known for its historic summer resorts, such as Wequetonsing, which was founded by Illinois businessmen and lawyers Henry Stryker, III, and Henry Brigham McClure. They were both connected with the Jacob Bunn industrial dynasty of Illinois.
The European-American settlement started with a mission by French Catholic Jesuits; they called this area L'Arbre Croche, meaning Crooked Tree. In 1847, L'Arbre Croche had the largest concentration of Native Americans in Michigan.[6] French traders renamed the area Petit Traverse, or Little Traverse, when they arrived in the area. After more settlers came to the area from the eastern United States, they changed the name of the village to Harbor Springs, incorporating it in 1880.
The federally recognized Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians are descendants of the numerous Odawa bands that historically occupied this area. They have their tribal offices in Harbor Springs, and a gaming resort in Petoskey. Their reservation lands encompasses approximately 336 square miles (870 km2) of land in Charlevoix and Emmet counties.
One of the city's more prominent European-American residents was Ephraim Shay (1839–1916), known for his invention of the Shay locomotive. The hexagonal-shaped house he built in downtown Harbor Springs still stands today and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The local elementary school is named after him.
Another building of interest is the Douglas House on the shore of Lake Michigan. Designed by noted architect Richard Meier and completed in 1973, this house is one of 150 structures listed in 2007 as America's Favorite Architecture by the American Institute of Architects.
Harbor Springs was the location of the Club Ponytail, a famous music hall destroyed by fire in 1969
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.30 square miles (3.37 km2), all of it land. Harbor Springs has a lot to offer during the summer months, including beaches, sailing schools, marinas, multiple golf courses, bike paths, hiking trails, ice cream shops, candy stores, coffee shops and various summer vacation communities. In the winter months the two ski resorts Nub's Nob and Boyne Highlands offer over 678 acres of skiable terrain as well as terrain parks and various trails for snow shoeing & cross-country skiing. When Little Traverse Bay freezes over in the winter months, many people venture out on the ice for ice fishing and ice boating.
Harbor Springs is a few miles from neighboring Petoskey, Michigan, on the other side of the bay. It offers a wider variety of activities, including a multiplex movie theater, a thriving downtown area of its own, and several big-box stores.
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Munising SCUBA Diving
Munising Michigan is the home of the Alger Underwater Preserve , one of eleven underwater preserves in the state. They cover about 2,300 square miles of bottomlands. There are seven major shipwrecks in the Preserve. The Bermuda is one of the wrecks and is located on the bottom in Murray Bay in just 25 feet of water. The deck is only 12 feet down and can be viewed from the surface.
20130901; Algonac, Big Mac, and Michigan's U. P.
Part of our 6,300 mile trip around the USA beginning on the 5th of August and ending on the 27th of September included a much longed-after trip back to Michigan's Upper Peninsula, otherwise known as The U. P. Having been born in the U. P., one seems to retain a calling to go back there if one ever move's away in the first place! Maybe it's the pasties?
This trip begins early in the morning on the 1st of September after breaking camp at White's Haven RV Campgrounds located in Western PA's Cook Forest, having waited out the Labor Day crowds for about a week to continue our trip. We wakened to a thick fog that morning, experiencing more than enough excitement as three deer ran out of the forest and onto the road in front of our car as we traveled west towards Algonac, MI...our next stop. We managed to finally slow down enough to allow them to outpace us and run back into the woods to safety!
We arrived at Algonac, MI around 9.5 hours later, which features a State Park RV campground...extremely well-kept, a beautiful place to stay with clean facilities. It sits alongside the St. Claire River, which provides views of boats and ships plying the waters between Lake Huron and Lake St. Claire. We visited George's sister, her children and their children. Fun times and a welcomed break from traveling. We spent 3 days at Algonac, then traveled to Wroxeter, Ontario, Canada on the 3rd of September looking for relatives...or at least their birthplaces.
We returned from Canada to Algonac, MI on the 6th of September, more visiting, then left for the 5-mile long Big Mac bridge connecting lower Michigan at Mackinaw City to the Upper Peninsula at St. Ignace. It had been almost 50 years since I'd traveled across the bridge towards Manistique, Prior visits were made coming in from the west along U.S.2. The bridge is still impressive...but not as much fun as it was to take the auto ferry from Mackinaw City/Cheboygan to St. Ignace prior to the bridge being built! We've recorded the radio message extolling the virtues of the U. P. and the bridge's very being for you to listen to as we cross the bridge.
Traveling west on U. S. 2 to Manistique and the Indian Lake Resort was exciting, especially when we saw our first pasty shop...so exciting we forgot to turn in and try one out! Listening to the radio along the way provided local color, and we knew we were back in the U. P.
Manistique, George's hometown, had grown in size and now includes most all of the national chain restaurants. The folks are great...just as advertised on the radio! We visited Treasure City...a must for any souvenir hunters, visited an old Inland Lime & Stone quarry engine, spotted a few more deer on the road to our campsite, found some long lost relatives as well as some that weren't lost! And also very important, found a great dog groomer in Manistique where our two pooches were able to finally get a bath and a badly needed trim!
We found grandpa Ottosen's old lighthouse residence at 825 Range St. in Manistique. He was the head lighthouse keeper from around 1920-1940 when he finally retired. A visit to Marina Drive brought us to a view of the East Breakwater Lighthouse...that years ago provided the eerie two-toned sound of a fog horn during appropriate weather. Always nice to fall asleep listening to that strange sound! Finding the homes where George and his friends lived while growing up there in the '40s and early '50s provided a nostalgic twang to the trip.
And so...we hope you enjoy this trip to the U.P. as much as we did! Will share this video with the Colorado Yooper's group!
George
Lake Sixteen June 11, 2014
Scuba diving lake Sixteen in Martin Michigan.
Pine Valley Pathway - Baldwin Michigan - Family Hiking, Backpacking.
Family backpacking near Baldwin/Luther Michigan. A wonderful short hike to a set of camping spots near Lost Lake. A wonderful spot in the lower peninsula. The kids were able to easily hike in and help setup camp while exploring the surrounding forest and hiking around the lake.
Covert South Haven KOA Covert Michigan MI - CampgroundViews.com
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Covert / South Haven KOA in Covert Michigan offers full hookup RV and tent camping in an open setting with KOA level of amenities. A KOA Holiday Resort meaning it is designed, marketed, and intended as a destination to visit, stay and enjoy. The large facility is located in a rural setting off of Michigan 140.
Easily accessed for any size RV the main drive up to the gate is paved after that all the interior roads are not. Very dusty the roads and sites are gravel. The luxury sites have their concrete patios with picnic tables and umbrellas. On the flip-side the basic sites just have a place to park. There is decent spacing in between sites and pull-thru and back-in options for the RV sites.
The park is mainly made up of partial hookup sites with a select number of full hookup sites that tend to be very well reserved in advance. A large number of camping cabins including some in the shade or out in the open.
If you look at the park via satellite view you will miss a number of the pretty cabins tucked back in the woods along with a nature trail and a small fishing pond. There are also tent sites tucked back in the woods providing a state park/ national park feel.
As a Holiday Resort the location has a large number of family-friendly games and activities including a bounce pillow, two playgrounds and other gaming areas. The pool area is located up near the office and it’s a very large pool with nice lounge chairs and umbrellas around it there’s a large store with supplies and food. Finally an easy to access dump station out front, on the way out, overall this is a very nice and well cared for KOA location.
As an added bonus the park is surrounded by blue-berry bushes; buckets are available that allow guests to pick fresh blueberries!
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Brisk October Morning on Orchard Lake: Why Not?
A cold, early-October morning ride on Orchard Lake in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
A day of fall fishing in Michigan's Upper Peninsula
I want to get back to doing YouTube again. So here's a start. The fishing is a bit slow on this day but it's good to be filming again. Enjoy!
Great Getaways: Forester Park - Sanilac County, MI
clip from Great Getaways television program
Travel Planner -
2820 N. Lakeshore Rd. - Carsonville
Park Manager: John Stefan, Phone: 810-622-8715
Located 6 miles north of Port Sanilac on M-25 along the scenic Lake Huron shoreline, this 68 acre facility offers 190 camping sites, a handicapped accessible shower building, a park store, picnic pavilions, a park arcade, a swimming beach along with nature trails, playground equipment, a basketball court and fishing. Hymn sings conducted weekends Memorial Day to Labor Day.
Discovering - Tahquamenon Country
Travel month continues with a visit to the Newberry/Paradise Area.
A Northern Michigan Winter's Ride
A winter ride around Burt and Pickerel lakes in Northern Michigan by ORV , fishweb.com
The Best UP Michigan Road Trip (Ann Arbor To Lake Superior)
Most everyone can agree summer is one of the best seasons in Michigan. My family and I took full advantage of the great weather on our road trip from Ann Arbor, MI to Gulliver, MI in the Upper Peninsula. After passing the Mackinaw Bridge, we alway stop at Lehto’s to grab a pastie (nothing screams your up north like a pastie). We stationed in Gulliver, MI and then headed to Lake McDonald day one for some great, great fishing. We brought our family boat along the 7 hour drive, safe and sound! I caught roughly 7 fish (a few got off the hock) in just an hours time trolling the waters of Lake McDonald. We caught pike and bass. Then we headed downtown Manistique for our land adventure. The annual summer festival was happening, so lots of booths and a stage with live entertainment. The next day we headed about an hour north to boat the Pictured Rocks National Lake Shore on Lake Superior. If you ever have the chance to visit, its a must as you can see from the scenery. Lots of opportunities for snorkeling, driving and exploring water caves. Next, we hit the trails for some ORV time. Quickly heading to Lake Michigan to cool down, As you can see, just a short ten min drive to the coast, the fog is drastically dense compared to moments before in land of the Great Lake. Heading home to Ann Arbor, we always have breakfast at Dreamland and hit the Cheese House on our drive down state. Hope you enjoy watching!
Potholes Reservoir Walleye Fishing
Part of an episode of Angler West TV. Learn effective techniques for walleye with guide, Shelby Ross and Bob Loomis of Mack's Lure along with Raith & Todd. Mack's Lure Smile Blade rigs get the most bites. Mardon Resort is by far the best place to stay in the area if you have a boat. Great cabins & marina with a well stocked store. Excellent family vacation place.
9661 Long Lake, Alpena, MI - $179,900
$179,900
9661 Long Lake
Alpena, MI 49707
Great Deal.... Two Cottages On One Great Lot. This Property Has Been In The Owners Family Forever. Front Cottage Has 2 Bedrooms, Sunny Living Room, Kitchen, 3/4 Bath And Sunporch. Second Cottage Also Offers 2 Bedrooms So Invite Your Friends Over For The Weekend. Nice Level Lot Featuring 100 Feet Of Frontage. Great Location To Also Build Your Dream Home.
Subdivision: Lakeside Rod & Gun Club
School District: Alpena
Listed by Lori Stephan (989-657-2709) - Real Estate One of Alpena ((989) 354-7653)