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Our view
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Sleeping Bear Dunes |
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Sleeping Bear Dunes
The 460-foot Sleeping Bear Dunes tower over the northeastern shore of Lake
Michigan like shifting pyramids of sand. The dunes are a popular launching pad
for hang gliders and stretch for seven of the thirty-four miles of national
lakeshore. The Sleeping Bear Dunes are the world's largest perched dunes, so
named because the dunes sit atop high, limestone bluffs. The dunes are slowly
migrating eastward and inland, where forest remnants of bleached pine, white
birch, and cedar swamps persist.
THE LEGEND OF THE SLEEPING BEAR
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the land that is today Wisconsin, Mother Bear and her two cubs were driven
into Lake Michigan by a raging forest fire. The cubs swam strongly but the
distance and the water proved too much for them. They fell further and
further behind and ultimately slipped beneath the waves. When Mother Bear
reached the Michigan shore, she climbed to the top of a bluff and peered
back across the water, searching vainly for her cubs. The Great Spirit saw
her and took pity on her plight. He raised North and South Manitou Islands
to mark the place where her cubs vanished and laid a slumber upon Mother
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 To get to the
house you will need detailed
directions.
Webcams:
Looking at the
Boardman River
The History
The Trails
National Park
http://www.nps.gov/slbe/index.htm
http://www.leelanau.com/dunes/
http://www.nps.gov/slbe/
http://www.sleepingbeardunes.com/
http://www.sleepingbear.net/
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