This is our last morning at Port Crescent State Park near Port Austin, Michigan.  We spent a quiet day yesterday, catching up on some cleaning and reading.  There's not much hiking to do here; the trails are in the other section ("day-use") of the park which one must drive to.  (Strange arrangement for a state park!)  The beach here has fine sand and it was a busy place yesterday afternoon, with kids digging and building, and of course, swimming and wading.  I took my Kindle down to the beach and enjoyed the sunshine.  I also took off my shoes and walked along the water's edge---warmer than I had expected---and it felt almost like being at an Atlantic beach, except for the lack of salt air.

The wind picked up in the evening and the temperatures dropped (43 on one indicator, 54 on another this morning, probably a difference between being along the lake or on higher ground where the wind is not so fierce).  There are good-sized waves on the lake, reinforcing that sense of being near the ocean.

Today we travel through Ontario and into New York state.