Getting Away
Posted by MikeAdams on August 28, 2008
Well the big vacation has finally arrived and we made our way to the great up north. We arrived in Mackinaw City at 9:45pm, and by the time we got unloaded and set up, it was too late to think about fishing the next morning. We slept in and passed on the fishing. We spent most of the day getting settled in and putting things away.
We did get to see a bald eagle this morning during breakfast. While we were sitting at the table, I looked out the window to a huge boulder in the water the locals call gull rock. Sitting on top of the rock was a beautiful bald eagle waiting for its breakfast. After watching it for a few moments, it flew away, soaring into the air and out of site.
Later in the morning I talked with the next door neighbor, Ed Voss. He is a retired botanist from the University of Michigan. He has written a couple of books on native Michigan plants. This morning I was fortunate enough to get another botany lesson from him. He was watching a caterpillar on a milkweed. I asked him what kind it was and he went on to explain that it was a Monarch Butterfly caterpillar. He also told me that they only hung around milkweeds. This is the only plant that they will build their cocoons on. This one he said might not make it, since it was so late in the season. I can always count on a biology lesson when I see Mr. Voss. This man is full of information on the plant and bug species here in Michigan.
After dinner and another breath taking sunset on the Straits of Mackinaw, it is time to get some rest for a morning of fishing on Carp Lake.
Man am I jealous. I love it up in the striats area but unfornately I have been up there for a couple years. Actully that last I was up there I got stranded in the UP because the Big Mac was closed due to wind and I had to get a room there. Normally I wouldn’t have cared but it was November 14th and I wanted to be down state for the opening day of gun season. Oh well I could have been stranded in a lot worst places.
August 28th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
Whatever the occasion, clean, cast aluminum tables on your deck or patio. Dinner Table
August 28th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
Sounds like you’re having a great time Mike! It’s been many years since I’ve seen a bald eagle. When I was stationed in the Aleutians the island I was on was a bold eagle sanctuary. Eagle were everywhere. We used to toss them hamburgers at the chow hall and they’d come diving down to snatch them. They are awesome birds, but they become annoying like crows after having to deal with the for a year. I was a telephone lineman and they’d be on the poles giving me dirty looks when I was climbing.
We used to drive into the dump at night, turn on the headlights and blast rats by the hundreds with our shotguns. We’d pile up the rats and in the morning they’d be gone. The eagles liked their midnight snack.
Have a great time Mike and write when you get home. Squirrel hunting opens Monday and Jamie and I are all set to go. I’m also taking Tuesday off to hunt. See ya!
August 28th, 2008 at 10:59 pm
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