Chuck > Looking out towards the sandbar.  Notice all the rocks sticking up above the surface of the water, indicating how shallow it is.
Chuck > Someone has arranged rocks in a spiral here on the shore.
Chuck > Now back on the shore, looking down the length of the sandbar.
Chuck > Now just beyond the cairn, looking back at the shore.
Chuck > Near the end of the sandbar, looking back at the shore.  The lighthouse can just be made out.
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 > 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 > The Old Mission Point Lighthouse at the end of the Old Mission Peninsula.
Chuck > The northwestern Lower Peninsula has many wineries; here is one of the vineyards on Old Mission Peninsula.  The Old Mission Peninsula splits Grand Traverse Bay down the middle, and East Grand Traverse Bay can be seen in the distance in this picture.
Looking out towards the sandbar. Notice all the rocks sticking up above the surface of the water, indicating how shallow it is.
Chuck > Looking out towards the sandbar.  Notice all the rocks sticking up above the surface of the water, indicating how shallow it is.
Looking out towards the sandbar. Notice all the rocks sticking up above the surface of the water, indicating how shallow it is.
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