The Legend of Sleeping Bear
According to Ojibwa (Chippewa) legend a mother bear and her two cubs, fleeing a forest fire, had to swim for miles across Lake Michigan. The cubs didn't make it. Mother Bear, a dark hill above the dunes awaits her cubs, which have become North and South Manitou islands offshore of the dunes.
Sleeping Bear National Lakeshore encompasses about 35 miles of shoreline in the NW Lower Peninsula of Michigan. This picture taken from the highest point above the "Dune Climb" looking northwest to Lake Michigan. The "ants" in the picture are hikers making the arduous trek from the Dune Climb to the dune bluffs of Lake Michigan. (Hope they brought water.)
The Legend of Sleeping Bear
According to Ojibwa (Chippewa) legend a mother bear and her two cubs, fleeing a forest fire, had to swim for miles across Lake Michigan. The cubs didn't make it. Mother Bear, a dark hill above the dunes awaits her cubs, which have become North and South Manitou islands offshore of the dunes.
Sleeping Bear National Lakeshore encompasses about 35 miles of shoreline in the NW Lower Peninsula of Michigan. This picture taken from the highest point above the "Dune Climb" looking northwest to Lake Michigan. The "ants" in the picture are hikers making the arduous trek from the Dune Climb to the dune bluffs of Lake Michigan. (Hope they brought water.)