Michigan Lakes, Loons, and Sand Dunes

After leaving Wisconsin we snaked our way south around the tip of Lake Michigan through Chicago, and now are enjoying a real treat:  The State of Michigan.  We celebrated the fourth of July in South Haven, which has beautiful, ocean-like boat docks and organized a traditional parade with marching bands, military veteran floats, and multiple queens (and the mayor, of course) waving from a convertible.

           We are now staying on the sandy beach coast of Lake Michigan in Empire at a lovely private RV park inundated with fields of wild flowers.  We will stay here for ten days and will enjoy an Interlochen concert, a bicycle ride around the side of the lake, and an early morning breakfast to catch the haunting call of loons that nest here.  The local farmer's market provided us a three-berry pie, freshly-picked strawberries and other Michigan produce.  This last photo below shows people climbing one of many of the Sleeping Bear sand dunes located in this national shoreline park.