Here is my tentative itinerary for vacation.

We will arrive later afternoon on Saturday after stopping at Cabela’s in Dundee, MI. After getting a MI fishy license and a sportsman card we will continue to head north for an additional 3.5 hours to our rental house. We will do a visual inspection of the rental pad.

We will unload the cars and stow gear, then we will go get the weeks groceries.  I will most likely have my second wind by this time and want to go fishing.  I think we will elect to take it easy until night fall and head out to mouse the main stem of the Au Sable our first night. 

So, fun fact the photos below is from the last time my ole friend and I fished together. We will laugh a lot about this while on our new adventure.

Locked up due to ice!

Ice Ice Baby!

Also, while we will be up here my friend who is a retired professional photographer is going to help me with my digital photography. I can’t wait to learn more. We will be visiting some dark zones. If your asking what a dark zone is, following this link.  https://darksitefinder.com/map/ it takes some getting used to on how to navigate it, but once you figure it out you can learn to really appreciate what they have put together.

We will also be paying a visit to a dark park. This will be my second dark park. The Headlands International Dark Sky Park. The moon phase will be a threat to a better dark sky, but I will make do. A reel nice web site can be found here https://www.cleardarksky.com/cgi-bin/sunmoondata.py?id=HDSKPMI&year=2023&month=6&day=25&&tz=-4.0&lat=None&long=None

After this it will be all fishing and photo taking. I will have an opportunity to get some close up and personal Loon Photos. This should be very entertaining.

I am off work today and I need to get my eggbeater spooled up with my floor mono.

Be well folks,

Sonder