We hiked to Sleeping Bear Dunes overlooking Lake Michigan.
Looking for the sleeping bear…
Still no bear but the story goes…
Long ago, along the Wisconsin shoreline, a mother bear and her two cubs were driven into Lake Michigan by a raging forest fire. The bears swam for many hours, but soon the cubs tired. Mother bear reached the shore first and climbed to the top of a high bluff to watch and wait for her cubs. The cubs drowned within sight of the shore. The Great Spirit created two islands to mark the spot where the cubs disappeared and then created a solitary dune to represent the eternal vigil of mother bear.
Like Hite’s Cove, there are wild flowers along the path.