Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Loons Point CG, Cedarville, MI: June 12-14
This is an absolutely beautiful setting, right on Lake Huron near the eastern end of the UP. This nice relaxing stop was much-needed after the stress of the last stop. We were quite close to Les Cheneaux Islands, narrow little islands jutting out into Lake Huron that look a lot more appealing on a map than in person. There are even roads leading out onto a few of them. While driving on them, there is no public access to the lake, and the roads are surrounded by trees, so you might as well be in a large forest as on the edge of an island. Of course the people who own the land right on the shore trim it enough so THEY can have a view, but it isn't visible from the roadways.
The Nature Conservancy owns a good section of the mainland shore, and we did some birding there. We managed to see an Alder flycatcher, a lifer that we had missed on our other eastern excursion back in 2001. We had planned to take a ferry to Drummond Island, but after reading up on it saw nothing really extraordinary to recommend it so we decided to pass and save the $20 round trip fare. We had seen enough lovely homes with trees blocking the views of the lake.
The Nature Conservancy owns a good section of the mainland shore, and we did some birding there. We managed to see an Alder flycatcher, a lifer that we had missed on our other eastern excursion back in 2001. We had planned to take a ferry to Drummond Island, but after reading up on it saw nothing really extraordinary to recommend it so we decided to pass and save the $20 round trip fare. We had seen enough lovely homes with trees blocking the views of the lake.
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