vacation photos: part Little Point Sable
(my cheap digital camera can suck at times :) much better photos exist ALL OVER THE PLACE!)
The first day we went to the beach (our first full day in Michigan), I learned from my mom that the Little Point Sable lighthouse was finally open to go in. (That link is SO informative, but must correct that the lighthouse is technically in MEARS, Michigan, within Silver Lake Park, and NOT in Pentwater. Also, although I'm sure Little Point Sable and Little Sable Point are both correct -- the second being the official coast guard name -- the first is what everyone that lives there calls it).
Bob, Alyssa, and I took our $4 ($2 a person) and walked up the beach to the lighthouse...only to find out that people under 3 feet who did not walk were not allowed. I cared more than Bob about the whole matter, so camera in hand I entered the lighthouse.
Here is the extremely steep, narrow-staired, spiral staircase that I climbed up!
And here is the itty bitty hatch built into the stairs I had to duck through in order to get out around the top of the lighthouse:
Bob and Alyssa are the itty bitty speck in the lower center of this photo:
And here are four views of the dunes and Lake Michigan beach near the lighthouse:
(I thought the top of the really tall tree was cool).