Vacation Part One

Vacation started out wet and cool, the first four days were spent at Lake Margrethe, which is just west of Grayling.  We had  a wonderful site and for the most part were the only ones in the park.  Most campers came and left, just staying overnight.

Fishing wasn't bad, other then the wind and rain.  Caught a few small pans and one or two keeper sized.  We always caught something when we went out. 

This would have been a good lake for swimming, the deep water came quite a long way from the shore and the bottom there was sandy.  After the drop off the bottom was mucky and weedy.

Our first night we went into Grayling to pick up a few things and also had Albe's Pasties, Yummy!  We did a lot of day trips as the weather was mostly cool and damp.  We saw our property we had east of Frederic on one of the trips.  The owner's have a large modern house built pretty much out in the middle of the field.  They are using the drive we made.  Nothing outstanding just a house in a field.

On one of the trips we went looking for somewhere else to camp. Goose Lake and Long Lake Missaukee, really close to Lake City, and Pickerel Lake which is northwest of Grayling.  We were not impressed with any of them.  Goose and Long Lake looked very brushy and just not inviting to us at all.  Pickerel might have been okay, but we decided to stay where we were.

I had taken my foraging books along to try some wild foods if we had the chance.  Right in the park there was an apple tree, it had just a few apples up high, but I managed to pick two.  There were no bad spots on them and except that they needed just a little more time to ripen, were very good.  I wish I could have been there to pick them when they were ripe and also been able to get up to the top of the tree where most of them were.

While at camp one day I fed some of the ducks and a couple of gulls.  I had just a couple of slices of stale bread and they seemed to enjoy it.  Wasn't the first time they had begged food off the campers.

Ducky friends.



Artsy picture.

Dad is over there!

Doggy nap time.

   The 2nd rainbow went from the north shore to the south shore and it was a double!           

On Monday, after four days at Lake Margrethe, we broke camp and headed to Reedsburg Dam State Forest Campground.  Lets hope for dryer weather while we are there!