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Mid-May Weekend on Burt Lake

·Burt Township, Michigan·#boating#michigan#lake life#spring#chris-craft
Two people embrace on a green lawn in front of a white church with a steeple and a large evergreen tree.

Mid-May weekend up on Burt Lake, in Burt Township, Michigan. The water was clear enough near shore to see straight down to the bottom, that green over the shallows before it drops off into blue. Still too cold to swim, obviously, but the boat was in.

We took the Chris-Craft out through the channel, trees close on both sides, then out where it opens up. Passed a marshy stretch with birds nested down in the reeds — swans, I think, though we didn't get close enough to be sure. Stopped at a white church with a green steeple on the way, tall spruce out front loaded with cones.

The next day turned grey and the wind came up off the lake, so it was sweatshirts and the fire pit chairs on the lawn instead. Sand blowing around a little on the beach. The dock and the boat lift are in for the season, which is most of what needs to be true this time of year.

A panoramic view of a wide, calm lake with clear green-tinted water, under a bright blue sky, with forested shores.Clear lake water with a visible bottom, a distant treeline, and a shoreline with trees and docks under a bright blue sky.A green house on a sandy lakefront beach with a wooden dock, bare trees, and clear water under a blue sky.View from a Chris-Craft boat's bow, looking down a treelined waterway under a blue sky.A wide lake with patches of reeds, several white birds, and a distant treeline under a bright blue sky.A wide view of a lake with a forested shoreline on the left and bare branches in the foreground under a cloudy sky.Two men stand on grass by a fire pit, with a sandy beach, a boat lift, and a lake in the background.Two people stand on grass next to a beach and a body of water under a cloudy sky.

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