When, in a tourist promotional booklet, I read "the Lake Michigan coast is one of the world’s most beautiful shorelines, encompassing some of the nation’s top beaches" I was ready to dismiss the statement as a typical exaggeration of tourist propaganda. However, after the day before yester- day visit of three of those beaches, I agree that they really are natural gems.

I never saw so much of so fine send, contrasting the deep blue waters of Michigan Lake on one side and protruding into the dense vegetation covering the sand dunes on the other side. Extending north and south for dozens of miles. And so rich animal life on the sand dunes along the coast, some on the beaches too.