Took a 4 day weekend and went camping up in Michigan, well not too far up. Actually it was the south western corner, between St. Joseph and South Haven in a town near Coloma. We were on a quest to pick peaches. Really that is RAWs thing since I don’t eat peaches.
The weather was nearly perfect. It could be a few degrees warmers but heck it could of been a lot worse for August.
We stopped at the fruit stand that has the U-pick and I was in “catchy color” heaven. I was so excited to get out of the truck and start photographing that I forgot to keep the door open so Hollace could get out. A very colorful fresh place.
There was a cute little swimming pond and a lot of sand. My ankles couldn’t take all the dune hiking Hollace wanted to do.
Met a family from near here that was tent camping with small children. I think they got too cold Friday night cause I caught them leaving Saturday night. They blamed it on their 5 year old daughter being crabby but I think it was really the prospect of sleeping in tents in the cold again. I doubt they packed to stay warm since it was August after all.
On Saturday we went to the U-pick for the peaches. They loaded us all on a hayride and drove us all around to get to the peach trees. We filled two baskets full of peaches.
The park was just a hop and a skip to Lake Michigan. We stopped by a road side parking place to the beach where we walked a long way in deep sand to the lake. The waves were pretty choppy and the sun wasn’t out so it was cold. Definitely not swimming weather. Found out later there was shore warnings for rip tides. As we walked back up that sandy hill, the sun came out and the temp went up dramatically.
All in all, it was a really good time and a nice get away.
Getting home was a pain because we ran into road construction that kept us in traffic an additional 45 minutes of our normally 3 hour drive.
It sounds like it was wonderful