Sleeping Bear Dunes and Hartwick Pines Michigan 2022

This year we decided on going to the family cabin in Johannesburg Michigan twice over the summer. Usually we only go once in the middle of the summer. This is a look at what we did on that first trip.
We'd been to Traverse City once before but it had been a few years. It was actually the first place that we went on vacation alone. On the original trip we only took a few disposable film cameras and a lot of the pictures didn't turn out. This time I brought two digital cameras and a film camera that I'd purchased locally. What is contained here is the footage that I shot. The film photographs are in another video relating to the Nikon N60.
This was the first time that we went to Sleeping Bear Dunes. It costs $25 dollars to get in to the park but I believe that the pass lasts a week. It was a very beautiful area. It's almost as nice as the Keweenaw Peninsula I'd say and much closer to my home in the Detroit area. I've never seen water so blue as I saw out on the shores of Lake Michigan looking out from the Dunes. As usual the footage doesn't even do it justice, despite looking quite stunning.
We also went to a place called Hartwick Pines, which is close to Grayling and a little town called Waters. It's near to the cabin so I wanted to go check it out after reading about it online. Supposedly, it's one of the last old growth forests left in the Lower Peninsula. It is filled with Pine trees, hence the name. It makes me wonder if the north woods consisted mostly of pines before the creation of the lumber industry. Another thing that I found interesting was that, due to the size of the trees there, the forest floor had a lot of wide open spaces. When you walk around most wooded areas in the lower peninsula the forest is so dense you can barely see through it. In the old growth forest area you have a lot of visibility. Once again, it makes me wonder what the north woods would look like now had they been left alone.
We're heading out to Sault Ste. Marie in the Upper Peninsula next time we visit the family cabin here soon. I'm looking to forward to documenting the trip as always.
P.S. For some of the scenes I didn't attach my external microphone so forgive my breathing.
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