Here at the end of the sandbar someone has built a cairn. This is just a few hundred feet south of the 45th parallel; had I been able to go just a bit farther out, I would have crossed the 45th parallel eight times in the course of this trip; instead I crossed it only six times. - Chuck's Photos

September 2-8, 2004

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Chuck > The lake is very shallow at the end of the Old Mission Peninsula. At the far right of this picture, you can see some grass which is growing on a sandbar stretching out into the lake. The sandbar (the further right of the two sandbars visible in this satellite image of the tip of the Old Mission Peninsula) stretches out nearly half a mile from the shore--most of it above water (at least when I was there), and where it was below water the water was no more than an inch or two deep.

Chuck > Here at the end of the sandbar someone has built a cairn. This is just a few hundred feet south of the 45th parallel; had I been able to go just a bit farther out, I would have crossed the 45th parallel eight times in the course of this trip; instead I crossed it only six times.

Chuck > Near the end of the sandbar, looking back at the shore. The lighthouse can just be made out.

Chuck > Now just beyond the cairn, looking back at the shore.

Chuck > Now back on the shore, looking down the length of the sandbar.

Chuck > Someone has arranged rocks in a spiral here on the shore.

Chuck > Looking out towards the sandbar. Notice all the rocks sticking up above the surface of the water, indicating how shallow it is.

Chuck > This is the Grand Traverse Lighthouse at the end of Leelanau Peninsula, which marks the western end of the entrance to Grand Traverse Bay.

Chuck > Few lighthouses function as such anymore; structures such as these serve the same function with less maintenance.

Here at the end of the sandbar someone has built a cairn. This is just a few hundred feet south of the 45th parallel; had I been able to go just a bit farther out, I would have crossed the 45th parallel eight times in the course of this trip; instead I crossed it only six times.

> Here at the end of the sandbar someone has built a cairn. This is just a few hundred feet south of the 45th parallel; had I been able to go just a bit farther out, I would have crossed the 45th parallel eight times in the course of this trip; instead I crossed it only six times.

Here at the end of the sandbar someone has built a cairn. This is just a few hundred feet south of the 45th parallel; had I been able to go just a bit farther out, I would have crossed the 45th parallel eight times in the course of this trip; instead I crossed it only six times.

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