Michigan State Parks GeoTour 2: Dipping Our Toes into State Park Caches

I've lived in a number of states as a former military wife, but, ah! Michigan! What a gorgeous state! And the Michigan State Park GeoTour really highlights some of the best areas!

I will do my best to share our state park beauty without posting anything that's truly a spoiler. I will not share any photos of the actual code words. 

MSPGT2-SL: Lexington State Harbor GCAPW4Y

Today is the first day of the All Michigan Quilt Shop Hop, and TaGeez & I went to Imlay City. We had a lovely time exploring the shops and grabbing puzzle caches. But I was in need of seeing some beautiful, blue water.

We decided to turn to Lexington. Not only an area we love but the MSPGT2 geocache that we sponsored!

Nearby is a cute downtown with restaurants and shops, but one street over is the boat launch on the "sugar-sand beaches and crystal-clear waters". Perfect day to drive across Michigan's thumb for this drive.

We turned up with high hopes, and we found the cache immediately. Oh fun! We quickly had the solve at hand, but there was a problem… we couldn’t get the second lock to open.

What did we do wrong? We tried the puzzle again, tried the lock again, tried the puzzle again, went to lunch, came back, tried again, and left unsuccessfully.

Now, this cache is nowhere near home, so we turned around and headed back one last time. Someone else had just opened it today so it must work!

This time TaGeez entered in the code and snap! Unlocked! Looking confused, TaGeez kindly told me my answer was correct, but I wasn’t pulling g hard enough on the lock! DOH!

Lake Huron is cold, but it is beautiful. We enjoyed our beach-views at the cache, and then we decided to drove down the coast through Port Huron and Marine City.

MSPGT2-SL: Island Lake RA GCAPW4R

Several days later found us at Island Lake Rec for the MSPGT2 - Southern Lower Edition Kickoff GCB78ZM. Again, we were blessed with good weather. We hang out with friends, snapped pics of the Sandhill Cranes, and then group cached the nearby State Park cache. 

After a work-filled winter, it felt great getting out into the parks again!