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The photo in the article looks very murky. But Lake Michigan can look really Blue in the summer, and has places with great sand beaches. It feels almost tropica
by dukeofdoom 6y ago
The photo in the article looks very murky. But Lake Michigan can look really Blue in the summer, and has places with great sand beaches. It feels almost tropical in the summer. Probably the zebra mussels filtering the lake have cleared it up.
- EvanAnderson 6y agoThe zebra mussels are what I always heard the clearing attributed to. I spent a lot of summers in the Grand Traverse Bay area in the 80s and 90s. The water got a lot clearer in the later 90s. It's spooky-clear now. (Beautiful area-- I wish there was work there to support my family. I'd move in a heartbeat...)
- dukeofdoom 6y agoI've been to Traverse City two times, each time had a great time. So many fun things to do. And its a little less humid in the summer than Detroit, and has fresher air. But the water is still warm. You can just walk out on the sandy beach and go for a swim, like you're in the Bahamas or something. I used to live in Vancouver, and the local lakes were never warm enough to swim in in the Summer.
- reaperducer 6y agoThere's an event every year called the "whiting" of Lake Michigan. Then the Spring sun warms the water, it reacts with the limestone at the bottom and causes large white swirls through the water. I've seen pictures on it on local TV newscasts taken from helicopters.
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- mgraczyk 6y agoThe photo of the stonehenge-like structure underwater is unrelated to the contents of the article. The actual structure is roughly a line of stones, not a circle.