Turtle recall...

MikeO

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22nd September

Once again, I wake at just after 0800 – once again it feels earlier. I pack the bike and, after making a few calls and replying to some emails, I’m on the road at 1030, heading west towards Lake Michigan…

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It’s a fantastic morning - 75º F and barely a cloud in the sky. I ride the 55 to Manistee, then turn right to follow the east shore. It’s hard to think about this being a lake – it’s over sixty miles wide at this point and it has all the properties of the ocean…

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…including beaches, waves and sand dunes. The road is great – at times, it reminds me of Thetford Forest, back in Norfolk. As I enter the Manistee National Forest, I notice some odd looking cattle…

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Their markings are really striking. According to the sign at the farm, they’re Scottish Belted Galloways – although I’ve never seen one, in all my travels through Scotland…:confused:

A little further down the road, I round a right hand bend and swerve to avoid something in the road…

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…it’s a terrapin, risking life limb and shell by trying to cross the road. I stop and carry him back into the woodland at the side of the road…

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…where he’ll probably get eaten by a raccoon :yelrotflm

The road starts to follow the shoreline more closely…

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…and small lakes start appearing on the left of the road. I notice this beautifully restored old lady parked in the shade…

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…any guesses? (Grizz, from UKGSer, wins the prize for yesterday’s mystery car, correctly identifying it as a 1948 Chevrolet Fleetline). I eventually turn inland, leaving the shoreline behind…

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…and come across a vast amusement park…

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…which, unfortunately is closed. The parking lot covers a couple of acres and the park itself seems to specialise in roller-coasters.

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This one looks like it might be fun…:D

I set Bettie the task of finding me somewhere to stay for the night – half an hour later I’m checking into the Hampton Inn at Muskegon.

A good day.

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