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Welcome
Welcome to our site for the other island in the Straits of Mackinac.
Please take a look around. Feel free to join the forum and introduce yourself if you'd like. Share your memories, thoughts, views, opinions, and especially your photos. We think you'll find we're a friendly bunch here. Enjoy your visit and visit often!

Congrats to Photo Contest winners Poppa Boot Hands a.k.a. Pete with his Shrooms picture taken somewhere near Fire Tower Road,

Shrooms

followed by DawnM with her Ducks In A Row pic.

Ducks In A Row

Thanks to all who contributed pictures and also the voters. We're now taking submissions for the next photo contest!


 

Recent Public Pics
The white line indicates the direction you need to take to gain access into the heart of the State Natural Area.  This is for those people who would like to hike into a wetland -
Nature Nuts!
 I added names to the 'unnamed ponds' so that people can describe where they have been, and others would know where they went.
A picture taken before the cabins were "digested" by nature.  My Grandmother, when young, slept in the cabins, just for fun and to say that she had done it.
This rose window was brought over from Cheboygan on the steamer Duluth in 1906.  It was the design of Eustace Ziegler and constructed in Detroit by the firm of Fredrick & Wolfrum.
Source; Cheboygan Democrat.

Click the picture for a bigger view.
Poster: mikewhite
Image: Natural Area - Click to Enlarge
ID: 2797
Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2012 8:16 am
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Poster: mikewhite
Image: Natural Area and line of travel.
ID: 2796
Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2012 8:01 am
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Poster: mikewhite
Image: Dillinger's Cabins Early 1950's
ID: 2795
Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2011 4:19 pm
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Poster: mikewhite
Image: Rose Stained Glass Window In The Church Of The Transfiguration
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Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2011 8:31 am
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Still warm
Does these really work?
My neighbors Tortises Tonk in wagon
Poster: shawnee
Image: Deer North Shore
ID: 2793
Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 7:48 am
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Poster: shawnee
Image: Wind Turbine
ID: 2792
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Poster: shawnee
Image: Tank And Tonk And Tonk In Wagon
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Poster: shawnee
Image: Ta
ID: 2790
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Random Pictures
I'll be back this fall.
I think I left some red paint on the underside of that tree...
Ok...so where is this...?
2004
Poster: Alec Chambers
Image: My Idea Of Heaven
ID: 2180
Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 8:01 am
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Poster: Dan Reynolds
Image: Lighthouse Road
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Poster: Al'sOtherSister
Image: Fall Down the Road
ID: 1439
Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 7:33 pm
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Poster: Pami-roo
Image: Wild rose of the North Shore
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Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2005 8:19 pm
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taken 8-16-03
Very common on BBI and elsewhere.
I miss-identified this as Hound's-tongue last August.  It is actually an orchid and has spread all over BBI.
One in a series of Fun Day 2004 photos
Poster: Rob
Image: Saturday night sunset
ID: 280
Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2003 9:23 pm
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Poster: mikewhite
Image: Pearly Everlasting
ID: 1726
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Poster: mikewhite
Image: Helleborine
ID: 1692
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Poster: A.C. Haeffner
Image: Fun Day 2004
ID: 505
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Announcement: Fun Day 2010? Maybe not?
Posted: Conis @ Mon Mar 29, 2010 8:48 am
Cindy Riker has asked this post be moved to the front page.

As of right now, there are no plans to have a Fun Day in 2010. We do not have anyone that has volunteered to be the chairperson. Anyone interested contact Graham Whipple, Lani White, Cheryl Gahn or Cindy Riker....

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Announcement: Happy Valentine's Day
Posted: Rob @ Tue Dec 29, 2009 2:49 pm
Happy Valentine's Day

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Announcement: Happy New Year!
Posted: Rob @ Tue Dec 29, 2009 1:22 am
Testing the Topic Calendar to see if it displays properly.

Happy New Year to all!

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