I’m getting great photos texted to me from a couple of exotic places, San Fransisco, and Naomikong Point. I love them all but I will limit myself to sharing one from the Naomikong area for now.

Naomikong Point is a place in the yooperland I have known my entire life. It is about 30 miles west of the moominbeach. When I was a child, getting there involved the crappiest of crappy dirt/gravel roads and took forever. My parents liked to drive old two-track roads but but they didn’t do this one frequently, especially with young children.

Fast forward into whenever “they” built the Curley Lewis “highway”. A nice paved road over to US123, which leads to Paradise and Tahquamenon Falls. It used to take three hours to get from our beach to Tahq. Now it’s more like an hour or so. Whoosh! My parents had issues with Curley Lewis and perhaps they weren’t alone because I note that the road is called something else now.

I reconnected with this area when my brother and the GG took some of the beach urchins and my brother’s young rescue dog Sam out there many years ago. Part of the trail is along the beach and I remember that my brother went a little ballistic when when Sam rolled in poop and my brother threw him in the lake. (It is shallow there like at the moominbeach and Sam was fine.)

Naomikong is where I first encountered a TICK! Uber Kayak Woman and Radical Betty and I were hiking the trail there and Radical Betty encountered a “bug” she couldn’t identify. We took the “bug” into the Chippewa County Health Department and it WAS a tick.

The pic is the suspension bridge crossing whatever creek is coming through at this point. It’s not Ankodosh. There are multiple creeks in this area.

P.S. A lot of people (including the GG) mispronounce Naomikong. The “a” IS pronoucned as a long a. Na-om-i-kong. Not Nom-i-kong. Of course I do not know how the natives pronounce it. It might be totally different…

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