Sea Kayaking South Manitou in a day

It’s 8am on Cannery Beach, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. It’s me, a chain smoking heavy equipment operator, and nobody else. He says that no overweight tourists will be at the beach until about 11, and he wants to lift the cannery up off the ground before they get there. By the end of the day, my body and physics degree will both agree that the crane and I have each expended about the same amount of total energy. To which my liberal arts education replies, “but I have been across the sea.”

Volunteers Needed for Grand Rapids Water Festival

Chip Richards of Grand Rapids is in need of volunteers for the Grand Rapids Water Festival He forwarded this message along. I will be there on the water. Please mark your calender for the Grand Rapids Water Festival, Saturday June 20th at Riverside Park. GRWW will be hosting the valet boat coral. People that want …