Camping Vacation- Day 5

On Thursday morning we packed up and headed further north to Wilderness State Park, which is located very close to the Mackinaw Bridge that separates the Lower and Upper Peninsulas of Michigan.  The drive was beautiful and followed the coastline pretty tightly most of the time.

We took a wrong turn as we got near the state park and we realized that it got its name (wilderness) for a reason.  Our little car nearly got stuck in some of the ruts on this dirt road, and between the tall grasses that we were driving over and the low-hanging branches that we were driving under, we kind of felt like we were in a tunnel of sorts.  It was definitely an adventure!  I'm just glad nobody got stuck.

After we got settled we of course had to check out the park's playground.  Unfortunately it was a bit of a let-down and was really just a row of swings and a horseshoe pit. Jesse still had fun, but we ended up going back to the camper pretty quickly because the mosquitoes were so bad.

After dinner we set out on a hike.  In addition to swarms of mosquitoes (the plus side was that they made us hike very quickly and not take many breaks) we also saw a snake on the bridge in the picture below. To avoid disturbing him, we started at the other end of the trail and just hoped he would be history by the time we made it back (he was).