Mitten State has been vacationing on beautiful Hubbard Lake near Alpena this past week, and expects to be back posting regular items soon. It was surely a Pure Michigan week in a part of the state that I was not familiar with, including swimming in Hubbard Lake, snorkeling a Lake Huron shipwreck off Alpena, and picking the last of the U-Pick strawberries and raspberries.
The culmination was to have been my first charter boat scuba dive on two wrecks -- the Flint and the Montana -- off Alpena. But after getting fully geared up and in the water, my rented equipment failed and scuttled the trip. It was however, fortunate that the stuck regulator -- blasting out the contents of my air tank so fast that the hardware on the top of the tank literally froze solid -- decided to go haywire on the surface rather than 70 feet below.
On an unrelated note -- how is it that the Gaylor Meijer store has only Washington State cherries at a time when the Traverse City Cherry Festival is going on only 60 miles away? Same with my local Kroger store tonight? Washington cherries. In the middle of a Michigan summer?
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