View towards South Manitou Island from Glen Haven Beach.

Tis a lovely Monday. Thundershowers in the AM followed by warm sunshine and beautiful rock hunting conditions, excluding the annoyance of biting flies. 2 full buckets of assorted Lake Michigan stones, oodles of which are the elusive Petoskey. And I've still got 4.5 days to go. I need more buckets......

The official live count as of today is 13 deer, 1 porcupine and a baby chipmunk. I'm not allowed to count the 2 dead porcupine. Say's who!?!