They call it the Sunrise Side, the east coastline of Lake Huroon, a place of peaceful beaches, underwater preserves and sunrises worth getting up early to see. Com travel with Michigan Mike… Read more »
The Lake Huron Coastline
Mmmm… Let’s Eat Some Muskrat
Michigan has some strange traditions. But none is stranger than a Lenten tradition that has people eat…. muskrat. That’s right… I said muskrat. Here’s a glimpse at a suburban Detroit restaurant that, every lent, offers muskrat on its menu. Mmmmmm[...] Read more »
Tobico Marsh Bike Ride, Near Bay City
The Tobico Marsh is located in the Tobico Marsh State Game Area, near the western shore of Lake Huron’s Saginaw Bay, about 5 miles north of Bay City. This large area, encompassing 1848 acres of Kawkawlin and Bangor townships, contains over 1300 acres of wetland including wet prairie, shrub, cattail marsh, and forested types. As [...] Read more »
Michigan’s Massasauga Rattlesnake
Michigan has just one poisonous snake: The Eastern Massasauga Rattlesnake And, no, it’s not an endangered species, as some folks would have you think. In fact, in some places, it’s very common. But generally, it is an “at risk” species, as the suburanization of the state;s wetlands have encroached and diminished the little reptile’s normal [...] Read more »
Crossing the Big Mac Bridge on a Bicycle
The Big Mac bridge linking Michigan’s upper and lower peninsulas is a five-mile long engineering masterpiece. It’s impressive enough traveling it by car. But can you imagine how awesome it is on a bicycle? Each year, the annual DALMAC (Dick Allen Lansing to Mackinac City) Bicycle Tour, named after a former state legislator and biking [...] Read more »
Michigan’s Paulding Light Mystery
Up in the far western part of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula near the town of Watersmeet is a decades-old mystery that has drawn thousands over the year to a remote dirt road bordered by thick woods. Each night, something happens there that has baffled many. A strange light appears. Sometimes it pulsates. Other times in changes [...] Read more »