May 19, 2021 - Tawas Point to Harrisville State Park - 33 miles
This slow travel with short mile days is great. And, having a day here and there where we are not packing our gear is pretty nice too. After two nights at birding paradise, Tawas Point, we pedal to Harrisville. Several people have told us the beach there is very nice and the lake is perfect for swimming. It is a very popular park in the summer for vacationing families.
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| The sky is cloudy all day today |
Oscoda is about halfway through our route. We stop at a little farmer's market at the city hall parking lot. There are seven vendors and we patronize three of them. We acquire a goose egg (!) for tomorrow's breakfast, two homemade pasties to heat up in the fire for tonight's dinner, a strawberry rhubarb pie, and a mini-loaf of blueberry muffin bread. We eat the blueberry bread at a coffee shop which is doing window orders and outdoor seating in a little shop across from the public beach access.
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| The crust on these is stellar. |
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The beach at Harrisville is rocky. Glaciers from Canada carried some very nice stone with them and the lake has tossed and tumbled them to rounded smooth beauties. I could look at them for hours. Each time I think I have found the perfect fossil print another one appears. My pack will be a few ounces heavier after all my rock collecting. Searching for rocks is the main activity at Harrisville. After dinner we see lots of people poking around on the beach and putting rocks in pockets, buckets, and old coffee cups. |
Your stone / fossil collecting should also target Petoskey stones and Leland Blue stones when you get to those areas of the state.
ReplyDeleteI am excited for more rock hunting while Tom fishes.
DeleteI spent my childhood summering on the shore of Lake Erie and loved collecting stones! I still have many of them. We use them when we are teaching a particular kind of prayer that used found objects. So many things to contemplate in these beautiful stones.
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