Vacation notes

There are loons on Douglas Lake. It surprises me somewhat because I had heard that loons avoid humans and their noise-making as much as possible. But the lake is beautiful and a good share of it is undeveloped because it is controlled by the University of Michigan which maintains a biological research station there. Loons can evidently find enough solitude and peace of wing to stay there.

It was the first time we have ever really been able to watch the antics of loons, even though it was more good luck than good planning when we saw them on the lake.

We checked out some prices on places for sale. It doesn't appear that the depression has had much of an effect on prices --- at least on asking prices.

There are many wonderful places left in northern Michigan to find peace and quiet, natural beauty, and an escape from the helter-skelter world most of us have every day. But our children's children won't be that lucky. THey'll have to seek wilderness elsewhere; it's disappearing fast.