Tawas Point State Park is on a skinny, curved peninsula on
the west side at the top of Saginaw Bay.
It seems like every campsite in the campground has a family and a
dog. The kids are bicycling, swimming, and
playing catch. A cluster of 5 kids with
training wheels on their bikes rattled by this evening. This is a very happy place.
Inside the curved peninsula, Tawas Bay is protected and
shallow. There is a lovely lighthouse
near the end of the peninsula, marking the navigation hazard as well as alerting
ships in distress of a safe harbor where they can refuge during a storm.
The Adventure
Our very good friends from Fairfax, Steve and Robin,
happened to be in the general area visiting relatives at the same time as we
were. So, we decided to meet up here at
Tawas Point. It has been so much fun to
share our adventures (again) with them.
Today we went kayaking on the mighty Lake Huron. The weather was cool, the sun was bright and
the winds were calm. We put in on Tawas
Bay and paddled around the tip of the Point into the Lake. What was so remarkable to us was how clear
the water is. You can see details on the
bottom through the water. There isn’t
any algae or grass or anything growing.
When a wave comes toward you, you see right through it, as if it was
made of glass. Remarkable. We read somewhere that geologically the Great
Lakes are “young” and haven’t developed sediment to nourish plant life and
algae yet. How exciting to be boating on
a Great Lake.
We also climbed to the top of the Tawas Point lighthouse and
looked at the places we’d kayaked. We
found out that the structures we’d passed over in our kayaks were in fact a shipwreck
and a former dock. The view was super
clear and we saw across Saginaw Bay to the Thumb where we were just the day
before. We even saw the windmills (see
previous post), just barely.
There are lots of photos on this post, so please keep scrolling down!
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