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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 even your photos. We think you'll find we're a friendly bunch here. Enjoy your visit and visit often!

Thanks to all who have been patiently waiting for the upgrades and repairs and especially thanks to those who have made donations to the site. If you can't log in with your username, delete your cookies (link here) from your browsing history.

Recent Public Pics

There are at least nine different speedwells in Michigan, and six on BBI, but you can tell if it is a speedwell if you note that one of the four petals is smaller then the other three.
This one is classed as a Eurasian weed.

These have a double flower that turns into this fused together double berry.

This is probably a starry false Solomon-seal. These usually grow in the sand, but this big one was in the hardwoods on Round Island. The false Solomon-seals have the flowers in terminal clusters. The true Solomon-seal has one flower per leaf axil hanging down..

The common wild rose of Bois Blanc. It has double serrate leaves.
Rosa acicularis
Found in Bill & Angie Mitchell's yard at Sand Bay.

Poster: mikewhite
Image: Thyme-leaved Speedwell
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Poster: mikewhite
Image: Partridge-berry
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Poster: mikewhite
Image: False Solomon's Seal
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Poster: mikewhite
Image: Prickly Rose
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Found on Round Island. You can't see the flowers until you look under the leaves.

This small violet grows in the wettest places. Places where the cedar is stunted and black ash grows. Sunlight makes it to the ground through the spare cover to allow this to grow. Not listed as being on BBI, but it is.
Type violet in the picture name search and see six violets on BBI.

As the name says, it grows in bogs or fens.

There are 3 kinds on BBI, spotted, striped, and this one with an unspotted lip. Corallorhiza trifida var. verna

These totally lack chlorophyll.

Poster: mikewhite
Image: Twisted-stalk With Rose Colored Flowers
ID: 2586
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Poster: mikewhite
Image: Smooth White Violet
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Poster: mikewhite
Image: Bog Rosemary
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Poster: mikewhite
Image: Northern Or Early Coral-root
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Random Pictures

A walk on the driveway produced many slug sightings. The girls were very intrigued by them.

This is a picture of a picture so the quality is not very good. Photo belongs to Lee, Curt's sis.

Poster: mikewhite
Image: Common Milkweed
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Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 4:53 pm
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Poster: Bruce Lord
Image: Kayakalakeaday Be There!
ID: 2482
Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2009 10:56 am
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Poster: Rob
Image: Fun On The Island - 004
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Poster: Rob
Image: Charles Plaunt, founder of Plaunt Transportation
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Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2003 8:51 pm
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Note how the little white flowers go out on little stems of their own. Also see the little stinging hairs on the main stalk.

Poster: theeislandgirl
Image: Part of the alaska pipeline
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Poster: John Elmer Engel
Image: Beech Tree Lips
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Poster: A.C. Haeffner
Image: Leaving the Island
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Poster: mikewhite
Image: Stinging Nettle
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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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Announcement: Home Page

Posted: Rosemary @ Mon Dec 28, 2009 2:45 pm

Is there going to be a Home Page? I don't see it now and the list of new postings do not move....just says how many there are?????

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