Video & pix: Base Camping @ Nordhouse Dunes Wilderness MI

**Hawk-eye** · 07-11-2011, 07:36

Just got a chance to watch your video. WOW ... nicely done. Excellent photos and nicely edited video! BEAUTIFUL place and chops to you for leaving the place better than you found it!

Thanks for the bit of ed'u'm'cation on the little fish kill ... I'd never heard of such.

THANKS for sharing the adventure!

**gargoyle** · 07-11-2011, 10:18

Thanks for the vid Red.
I've been on these beaches alot, and the fish die-off is really sporadic. Don't let the fish thing scare folks of coming to the beaches. They are beautiful. One of the best.

**Redoleary** · 07-11-2011, 10:23

Originally Posted by BlazeAway

Thanks for sharing. Really enjoyed it.

Glad you like it, thanks for watching.

Originally Posted by Deucalion

Great trip! Loved the 360 pan of the lake and area. Perfect spot to hang out. You camp meals were amazing! I always go simple, way simple, as I'm too hungry and afraid of messing it up. Instant mashed potatoes and the like for me! One of these days a trip report like this is going to really inspire me to cook something delicious like ya'll did and treat myself on trail!

Thanks for sharing!

Thanks, most of our meals are pretty simple too.... lots of Ramen, but its nice to make something a little fancier every once and a while. I'm a better cook on the trail, than I am at home

Originally Posted by ^shane^

Beautiful photos. Still need to watch the video. This time of year almost makes me jealous of you guys that don't suffer the 100+ temps during the months of June, July, and August... then I remember that you suffer through wicked winters and everything evens out.

Thanx Shane, we have to take the good with the bad up here, but I like having 4 seasons. Growing up here ya just get used to it.

Originally Posted by Lepmeister

Nice work, looks like a great place.

Thank you, Nordhouse is one of our favorites.

Originally Posted by richtorfla

Thanks for sharing. Pics are beautiful. Glad y'all could get away. Looked like a beautiful place and that there is a nice trail system. Great lakes must be something to see.

Thanx, the Great Lakes have a lot to offer, I think they're undervalued as a destination, but definitely worth checking out.

Originally Posted by Hawk-eye

Just got a chance to watch your video. WOW ... nicely done. Excellent photos and nicely edited video! BEAUTIFUL place and chops to you for leaving the place better than you found it!

Thanks for the bit of ed'u'm'cation on the little fish kill ... I'd never heard of such.

THANKS for sharing the adventure!

Thank you Hawk-eye, I'm always working on my editing skillz. The fish thing was interesting to me too, bit of a drag to experience, but I learned something from it.

Glad you enjoyed the video, thanx for watching.

**Redoleary** · 07-11-2011, 10:28

Originally Posted by gargoyle

Thanks for the vid Red.
I've been on these beaches alot, and the fish die-off is really sporadic. Don't let the fish thing scare folks of coming to the beaches. They are beautiful. One of the best.

Yeah, I hope the fish thing doesn't stop anyone from putting Nordhouse Dunes on their list. Thats the first time I've ever seen it, and I'm sure they'll be gone in no time. In fact I anyone gets one of these fish stuck in their water filter I will personally buy them a new filter element.

**mbiraman** · 07-11-2011, 12:05

NIce video and pics. Looks like a good spot. I bought one of those butterfly chairs a couple of months ago and its been real comfortable altho yesterday i slipped on some mossy rock, flipped over and rolled into a little mud puddle laughin all the way but thats another story.
bill

**Shug** · 07-11-2011, 13:01

Really....you got a photo gift!!!!!
I wept looking at the coffee cake as I love it so.
Time for a fish fry.
What a fantastic time for you and your Sweetie.
Shug

**canoebie** · 07-11-2011, 14:55

Great time Red, really great time. We will have to go there together sometime. I love the big lake on our western coast.

**Redoleary** · 07-11-2011, 15:51

Originally Posted by mbiraman

NIce video and pics. Looks like a good spot. I bought one of those butterfly chairs a couple of months ago and its been real comfortable altho yesterday i slipped on some mossy rock, flipped over and rolled into a little mud puddle laughin all the way but thats another story.
bill

Thanks mbiraman, last year only my wife had one of those chairs and I could hardly wait for her to get up every time we went camping

. Now we each have one and we both love 'em.

Originally Posted by Shug

Really....you got a photo gift!!!!!
I wept looking at the coffee cake as I love it so.
Time for a fish fry.
What a fantastic time for you and your Sweetie.
Shug

LOL Thanks Shug. Nothing quite so good as fresh baked sweets on the trail, thats fer sure.

Originally Posted by canoebie

Great time Red, really great time. We will have to go there together sometime. I love the big lake on our western coast.

Thank you Canoebie, We'll definitely put Nordhouse on our to-do list, that'd be a great little trip. That might be a good place to try some winter camping??

**yardman228** · 07-11-2011, 21:26

Great video and pics. I was supposed to hang there a few weeks ago with my son, brother-in-law and two nephews but the threat of thunderstorms kept us away. It was nice to watch your video and wonder what if.....

Maybe next summer when I go back to visit family again.