Petoskey State Park, MI-July 2012

 Here is another state park in Michigan that we liked. Sandee's love is rocks, being a geologist and paleontologist collecting rocks, sand, minerals and gems is what gets her excited. Over the years I have carried a number of rocks for her, in fact she say's this is way she married me because I before we were married I carried one HUGH rock to her car for her.
  The reason why we stayed at this park was to hunt for the Petoskey Stone. After we set up camp we went to the beach and began our search. We did not find any huge stones but we found a number of smaller ones to fill our needs. We learned a great trick to find these stones from the locals. Every one who was searching used a pasta strainer to dip into the sandy bottom a few fee from the shore line and shifted the sand out until nothing but the larger stones and shells were left. Since we did not have the a strainer I cupped my hands and let the water wash the sand away. It took a bit longer to get to those stones but I was successful.
  In July 2012 we camped at four Michigan state parks and we were never disappointed. Each of the parks had modern facilities, electricity, water, dump stations and a good clean working bath house and restrooms. Clean is the key here, other state parks we have stayed in just were not that clean.

 

Squirrel in our camp site.

 

 Petoskey beach.