Back from the Northwoods once again.

Got back from vacation last Friday.  Had a really good time again this year.  The fishing was better then the last time.  Chris and Chita and Daniella spent the first weekend with us.

The first part of Saturday we spent metal detecting around a ghost town named Michelson.  It was a lumber boom town in the early 1900's.  Most of the village is under water due to Reedsburg Dam being built in the middle 1900's.  There are some remains of buildings left, but not many.  When I was a kid going up there, you could see a lot more homesteads being over grown, but now they are gone.  What we did find was the cement foundations to a very large building that we suspect was one of the saw mills located in the town.

The afternoon Daniella and I went fishing...for once the fishing was really good!

 

Stinking Grandkid caught a 13" Largemouth bass!

Too bad it needed to be 14" to keep it!

Biggest fish the whole nine days!

 

 

Nice shot of the bass and his big mouth!

 

The weather was good all nine days, rained at night, got really cool one or two nights, but all in all good.

 

 

One of our day trips took us exploring the other side of the back waters.  Plenty of two tracks and we saw some seldom seen wildlife...a partridge, and either it was a grey fox, or a coyote and also roaming free...

 

 

These guys were just free ranging at the end of the dead end road we took.  They were sure friendly and one really liked a good rump scratch.

 

 

Another day trip found us at the lighthouse at East Tawas Point.  Very nice, and we found out that the folks who were giving tours and answering questions were volunteers who got to spend the week living in the lighthouse!  So very cool.  Maybe a vacation idea later on.

 

While the kids were still with us, we went two tracking, or as my folks and I called it back in the day..."deer hunting".  We ended up going around to see the cottage that was my parents back then.  Chris remembers it some.  He wasn't very old the last time we were there, but he does remember it.

The very coolest part about going to see the cottage was that we met the people who owned the place next door.  They, or at least their family had owned it since 1954, so that meant that they were around when my parents and I were!  I don't remember them, but they seem to remember my mom.  Really was a nice chat.

Sunset over Houghton Lake at the end of Cottage Drive.

One of the two tracks.

 

While two tracking we also found the farm of one of the residents of Michelson.  He had owned the General Store.

 

 

It had been a beautiful farm in it's day.

 

 

Well I suppose I've gone on long enough, but before I close here are a few more high lights of our time:

 

A Pan full of fresh caught fish!

A pan full of golden brown fresh caught fish!

Greg and his puppy sleeping in.

The camp site.

The dogs enjoy camping.

"Do we really HAVE to go home tomorrow?"

 

 

Onward and Upward!