Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: sand

From our walk along the Lake Michigan beach at Michigan's Hoffmaster State Park a couple weekends ago.

Petoskey, Michigan; that's Little Traverse Bay on Lake Michigan. Considering I shot this with a cheap panoramic camera and that this was one of the first scans I ever made from a negative (the scan's nine years old), it's not half bad.

Hoffmaster State Park. That's Lake Michigan in the background.

On the beach at our hotel.

East Bay, Traverse City. Last fall.

Fifth of Six. And what have we here? I presume that driftwood border has some significance. Is that a bunker near the top of the photo? Are those feathers supposed to represent trees? And what, pray tell, are those ranked-and-filed shells? Mysteries. On the beach at Cheboygan State Park.

The dock, pulled up on the beach for the winter, at Sugar Beach Resort in Traverse City, Michigan. Looked like they'd just pulled it in. The permanent part of the dock shows in this photo . Unretouched; exactly the photo that came out of the camera.

Another shot from our climb up Sleeping Bear dune. Glen Arbor, Michigan, more or less. Or Glen Haven. Or something.

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Lake Michigan.

Big Sable Point, Ludington State Park, Michigan. Big Sable Point Lighthouse is at land's end, but you can't see it well in this picture. Even in the larger size. Shot from SS Badger, shortly before we docked at Ludington.

South Manitou Island in the background. Best LARGE!

Come summer, this view will be filled by families and sunbathers. Joan had never climbed the dune; I hadn't been up the hill since the mid-seventies though I'd climbed it several times in the sixties. The Dune Climb starts out quite steeply for an elevation change of 80 feet or so, then continues with a less strenuous climb that raises you another hundred feet or so. This photo was taken just where the going gets easier.... Glen Lake's remarkably colorful, though (of course) the ice hides that in winter. Can't seem to find details about the climb--beyond it's existence, anyway--anywhere on the web.

Joan, on the Dune Climb up the back of Sleeping Bear Dune--Glen Arbor, Michigan. We were there, so we climbed. All the way to the top. Joan's seen taking a picture of Glen Lake , which the climb overlooks. Yes. That steep.

Atop Sleeping Bear Dune, with South Manitou Island and Lake MIchigan in the background.

We did a wee little bit of beach walking yesterday.

Hoffmaster State Park, Norton Shores, Michigan.

Explored! #86 on Monday, July 23, 2007. Thanks! Perhaps the prettiest place I know: Sleeping Bear Bay, on Lake Michigan, from Glen Haven, Michigan. The big dune is Sleeping Bear; the island is South Manitou.