
I took the kids on a Lighthouse Hunt yesterday. I love lighthouses and I thought it might be a good way to spend the day. I found some info and crude maps on the net and we packed a lunch. I headed up M119 towards Cross Village and we found three just offshore north of Harbor Springs in the Gray's Reef area. There was one light I really wanted to see but by all accounts you can only see it by boat. We drove deep into Wilderness State Park and found a little parking area. We walked down the beach about 100 yards and around a bend and there it was! I was so excited! It was too far out to get a good picture so I borrowed one from a website. This was about the same view we had. There is some great history to this light you can read about here www.terrypepper.com/Lights/michigan/waugoshance/waugoshance.htm and also a resroation effort you can read about here www.waugoshance.org/ . In all we found twelve lighthouses. There were two others that we could hike to but I wasn't about to drag five kids through the forest for a mile each way. I am planning to hike out to see Waugoshance closer and the Cheboygan Point remains before the end of summer. If anyone is interested in an adventure let me know.

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