When an attempt to eat at a popular Traverse City restaurant - the intriguingly named Apache Trout - failed due to overcrowding, we hit the repeat button on Cellar 152 in Elk Rapids.
Friday, January 17, 2025
Water Wonderland
This map on the wall of Tiffany's Cafe celebrates the fascinating maritime geography of this piece of northwest Michigan.
Tiffany's Cafe
A pleasant little cafe in the pleasant little town of Empire, MI, just outside of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. We lingered here for quite some time post dunes.
Thursday, January 16, 2025
dune overlook, part 4
More stunning views of the dunes, the passing motorboat, and North and South Manitou Islands. There are ferries to those undeveloped islands where you can camp and go backpacking.
dune overlook, part 3
These images show the size and the steepness of the dune, not to mention the sublime scenery. If you look closely you can see people scaling the sand and a passing motorboat - little dots from this perspective. At bottom, the bottom of the dune, a.k.a. the shoreline.
Pierce Stocking dune overlook
This dune overlook off of Pierce Stocking Scenic Drive was the highlight of our Sleeping Bear Dunes visit. I had not been to this vista point before. What we have here is a very steep sand dune, amazing to behold but fraught with potential danger for those that go up and down it.
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