• Wednesday-What'sUP July 13 - 06:03 pm

Taana Kalliainen has invited us along on her drive through the Seney Wildlife Refuge, starting, of course, with the sign to tell you where we are. Next we pass a small lake, with what looks like a family of ducks on the left side. The following shot is representative of the lay of the land in the refuge, with plenty of grassy areas, innumerable trees (some that have seen better days!) and foliage of many kinds. Our last stop today is a lush looking pond, complete with a good number of lily pads and I'm betting a frog or two if you look close enough! For the rest of the tour with Taana, click on over to her slideshow and enjoy the ride!

The votes are in and counted and the winners of the 2006 Pasty Poetry contest have been announced.

Ah, the lovely northern bog! We are so blessed to have these refuges for wildlife. There is one north of Harbor Springs where I spend quiet time watching the sandhill cranes stalk their food. I was at Seney a couple years ago with my two dogs (leashed) and they also loved it. But that is where my beagle/shepherd got his nickname "Little Tick". If you go, wear long pants tied in at the ankles. Tick has 50 of them, all hard wood ticks.

What a nice slideshow. I remember riding along the "Seney stretch" back in highschool when I was working for my Brother-in-law's logging company. We were hauling logs out of Grand Marais and that part of the ride always seemed to take soooo long.

The pasty poems are tooooo cooool! Congrats to all winners!

Hi..so nice is been as pictures look!!

The stretch!

Congratulations to the poets who won.....I am not a sore loser and besides I ate way too many pasties while I was in Lake Linden for the 4th..got home late yesterday. The weather for the entire time was great!! Lake Linden had a super 4th as usual..Pastyfest on Sat,` annual class dinner on Sunday, music and games all afternoon and evening in the park with fireworks at dusk on Monday...the Grand-parade and games plus the famiily barbeque on Tues...two little nieces won two out of ten prizes for the bike parade in the evening. It was another sucessfull 4th in Lake Linden!!.....I enjoyed Pasyfest indoors this year....the music was super "Uptown Swingsters".....Walt Lavidere, now in his 80s (who had the Top Hatters for many years) sat in for a few tunes on drums.......Walter and my father played todether for a few years...

Wow! Thanks for highlighting my drive Mary. I had a meeting in Germfask the other week and on the way home I swung through the refuge. It was a pretty cool drive and it took me an hour for just a 7 mile loop. I'm going to have to go back and hit the other loop. Have a great day everybody and enjoy the tour! ;)

I tried hitchhiking home to Detroit from da Tech once and spent a lifetime standing and looking at approaching traffic for about a lifetime on the Seney stretch. Never again.........If it had been hard winter, I wouldn't be here to tell it.....

Love the road from Blaney Park to Seney. But when I turn west, it's the Seney Stretch, home of my first ticket since 1969! The super-nice cop even said sympathetically: "I know it's hard to maintain your speed in the Seney Stretch, but you have to do it." The Visitor Center is a nice bathroom break, where you can take a quick (or slow) walk around the perimeter or look around inside. Even the parking lot is enjoyable!

Loved the poetry choices!

Boy, those pics of Seney are nice. I have been there once, I
think, and that might have been in the 1960s. Isn't that
pathetic! And that is just one reason why my wife and I are
slowly moving back home. There is so much I have not seen in
years or have never seen, like Whitefish Point and Drummond
Island. Keep those pics coming until we are up there and have
the time to tool around and see all that good stuff. (Maybe we
will wait on Seney, tho, till those ticks are gone -- shouldn't that
be about now though?)

purlieus

yes

if you think the seney stretch is long in a car,
try in on a bike!

4 of us rode from Houghton to DeTour Vilage
on bikes in 1980 (yea back when we were younger!)

we actually did a 4 man exchange of leaders all
the way across, and it went faster then we thought it would.

Of course you couldn't stop for a break casue you got eaten
alive by the bugs if ya did ;-)

That is a sign I look forward to seeing sometime this summer!

in the 1990's several of us rode security (i.e. self-loading baggage)in railroad passenger cars--
4 times across the Stretch at 10 mph - the butterflies were circling us.last trip was a moonlit nite-from the dome car!

That loop through Seney wildlife refuge is awesome! I drove the tour on the way back from up north in June. I got my pictures of the sandhill cranes and a running turtle there! He was running so fast I could barely focus on it! heehee...
I didn't realize there was another loop, now I can't wait to go back!

Seney stretch on a BIKE -- EASY. Try it RUNNING. They used to have a seney stretch MARATHON. The course map was easy to create. ONE BIG LINE. Of course if you are interested in BY-PASSING the seney stretch try the cut off road between munising and gladstone- nice change of pace for the frequent traveler.

Jeff is that the road that goes through the Hiawatha National Forest?? is it called Hwy 13???....it is so beautiful in the fall.. first week in October is glorious with golden leaves.......

I'm wondering if there were two poetry contests, because at the pastyfest my grandson was named first place winner.

Got caught in a blizzard with my mother in the middle of that stretch once. REMOTE!