This is a fun, interesting place to visit, especially if you like swimming in cool Lake Michigan on a hot summer day. We were there with hordes of other folks and a GPS that sent us awry numerous times, to our great consternation, so it ended up not being great fun. However, the views were lovely, and the monstrous dunes most fascinating.
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| This is a view of the sleeping bear. Use your imagination. His nose is the sandy cliff on the left. |
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| One of the huge dunes that goes down to the lake. Those dots next to the lake are people. |
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Some stupid people trying to climb up the sand dune from the lake to the top of the dune.
The signs said that it would take 2 - 3 hours, and to not try it unless you were in great shape and carried lots of water. We declined. |
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View of dunes
Sleeping Bear Dunes is near Traverse City, which has a cherry festival each year. There are wonderful cherry orchards all around the area, and they were ripe when we were there. We stopped and got a quart of cherries every day and ate them like bears. Yum!!!
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North of Traverse City is this delightful museum of mechanical musical instruments from around the world.
All were functional, and the tour involved hearing many of them. Most fascinating. |
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| I love music boxes, so hearing so many wonderful ones was a great treat. |
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Michigan has wonderful roadside picnic areas with space for trailers to park.
We stopped at this lovely one for lunch as we followed Lake Michigan up to the Mackinac Bridge. |
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