Lake Michigan at Indiana Dunes State Park. July 5, 2002.
We’ve had several days of rain and gray clouds here on the Plateau. I’m not complaining — we need the rain — but I do need to see some blue skies and sunshine. So I did what I often do — looked through some old pictures.
This picture was taken in July, 2002, at the Indiana Dunes State Park. I had taken Betsy to northern Indiana to see my brother and his wife and to see my hometown of Crown Point, Indiana. One day while we were up there I took her to the Dunes on Lake Michigan.
When I was a kid my parents would sometimes take us up to the Dunes in the summer to enjoy a day at the beach. We really enjoyed playing in the water, but the most interesting part of the park were the dunes themselves.
The state park is now surrounded on three sides by the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, but the state park is much as I remembered it. The park contains hiking trails, which Betsy and I enjoyed. This particular picture was taken as Betsy and I were hiking down from the top of Mt. Tom, the tallest dune in the park at 195 feet. It was a hot July day and the lake sure looked inviting at the foot of that dune!
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