#Leelanau

[shepherdingthepie]

nothin like cherry pie for breakfast on a Thursday mornin

[allmichigan]

The Legend of the Lake Leelanau Monster

A good story to share when you’re floating around this weekend is the tale of the Lake Leelanau Monster

Tilting by john levanen Back in the day, I used to feature excerpts by Linda S. Godfrey from the definitive book of Michigan mysteries: Weird Michigan. A good story to share when you’re floating around this weekend is the tale of the Lake Leelanau Monster. The story of an early 20th Century sea monster sighting was sent to The Shadowlands Web site by a reader whose great-grandfather was the…

[farlane]

Michigan Strawberry Season is underway!

Have you had any fresh Michigan strawberries yet?? Where's your favorite place to pick them up??

via Leelanau.com Strawberry Season at Bardenhagen Berries Farm Bardenhagen Berries Farm of Lake Leelanau, Michigan reports: We checked to see if the berries were ready to pick and it turns out they ARE!! We’ll have strawberries at our farmstand at 7990 E Horn Road, Lake Leelanau today until they sell out. The photos show the first flat of the day picked, as well as the first customers to…

[johnnycats]

leelanau state park

[annaetoma]

Sleeping Bear Dunes on the last warm day of the year.

[paxtonphotography]

Veronica Valley Adventure | Family

[leadvalets]

Picking the right Northern Michigan Painter

Every home will eventually need a new coat of paint. When a homeowner decides to have their home painted, it is extremely important that they find a Northern Michigan residential painting company who is competent and will do a good job, but who will also offer top-rate customer service. Good painters and painting companies, like Pro Paint Co., will go the extra mile to make sure that the customer…

[carvincaptoor]

Popcorn picking for the Leelanau Conservancy

[typocode]

Transitional Deck - Deck Deck - medium-sized, open-air transitional backyard deck design

[dogsaver-blog]

Goose Neck, Glen Haven Historic District, MI, 2012 by Tom Powell Via Flickr: Minolta SRT-101, Kodak Ektar 100, Re-edit

[devries-travels]

Leelanau State Park

May 25, 2021

I have lived in Michigan since 2001. I had ventured to the bigger cities and spent a few summer days here and there on the beaches on the West coast of the state, but until this trip I had never been to anywhere North. Right before we left we got some very basic gear: a purple water bottle that maybe fits 20 ounces in it, and a small $5 backpack both from Five Below. So with that and some snacks we had the bare minimum to do a real hike.

That drive towards Traverse City is still burned into my memory. Seeing glimpses of the Manistee National Forest, being surprised by how beautiful the Grand Traverse Bay is…. I knew that it was going to be really beautiful when we got to our destination but I really had no idea what was in store for us.

We first decided to take a route that led to the lake after about a mile of hiking. I’ve seen Lake Michigan before but this was the clearest water I had seen in my life

Stunning, honestly, and we got to walk along the beach for a while before heading back to the trail. The problem is that to get down to this amazing beach we had to climb down a pretty sizeable dune. The way down is nothing, but climbing up a dune when you haven’t yet gotten used to physical activity is basically the worst thing possible.

Eventually we struggled our way up the dune back into the forest. This was such a magical place honestly. It was far enough into spring that a lot of the growth had already happened, bugs were everywhere but they mostly left us alone. And the trees? Absolutely gigantic.

To be fair now that I’m writing this I’ve seen a handful of bigger forests, but this is the first time I’ve seen something more striking than the woods around where I live. This is one park we spent the entire day doing every possible trail either by accident or sheer curiosity.

On the other side of the park also there is the beautiful but not that originally named Mud Lake. I feel like there are multiple Mud Lakes even just in Michigan. Even just in the Lower Peninsula if I remember correctly.

Eventually after many hills and discussing our lives over the last few weeks in the woods with barely anyone around to hear us (which is one of my favorite parts of all of this) we completed our trip around the park and stopped back at the beach at the bottom of the dune and watched the sunset.

That cloud formation actually ended up being a storm that hit right after we got back to camp.

I’ll honestly never forget this day as long as I live. It was before recording hikes became a thing, so I don’t know how much we actually did that day but it felt like a challenge and left me with a feeling that I would be wanting to do things like this for as long as I’m able to.

[allmichigan]

Rite of Passage

An incredible photo of the Northern Lights dancing over the Manitou Passage in Lake Michigan last night from Sleeping Bear Point.

Rite of Passage Part 2 by Captures by Ethan VIA LEELANAU.COM… Here’s an incredible photo of the Northern Lights dancing over the Manitou Passage in Lake Michigan last night from Sleeping Bear Point. South Manitou Island is to the right, North Manitou Island to the left & The Crib (North Manitou Shoal Light) is in the center. Ethan’s father Elmer Hohnke recently passed away and he shares: I’ve…

[farlane]

Rite of Passage

An incredible photo of the Northern Lights dancing over the Manitou Passage in Lake Michigan last night from Sleeping Bear Point.

Rite of Passage Part 2 by Captures by Ethan VIA LEELANAU.COM… Here’s an incredible photo of the Northern Lights dancing over the Manitou Passage in Lake Michigan last night from Sleeping Bear Point. South Manitou Island is to the right, North Manitou Island to the left & The Crib (North Manitou Shoal Light) is in the center. Ethan’s father Elmer Hohnke recently passed away and he shares: I’ve…

[johnnycats]

Leelanau State Park

[herpsandbirds]

Saw this somewhat embiggened spider this morning at Leelanau State Park, MI. Walked very slow and deliberately. May have had fishing tackle with him.

Spider ID - MI, USA:

Hello, yes, this is definitely some sort of orbweaver, family Araneidae,

It looks to me like a Fierce Orbweaver (Araneus saevus).

https://bugguide.net/node/view/33682

[paxtonphotography]

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