Paradise Michigan is a place dear to my heart. Over the years, I've spent a lot of time here as a staff member, then board member of the Whitefish Point Bird Observatory. The Point acts as a funnel and collects migrating birds along its shores until they make a short jump over Whitefish Bay to their Canadian nesting areas every spring. In the fall, there are 1,000s of waterbirds that migrate by The Point. Off Whitefish Point is also where the famous shipwreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald occurred on November 10th, 1975. There is a nice memorial for the sailors at The Point and you can actually see the boat's bell in the Shipwreck Museum next to the historic lighthouse.
While camping in Paradise for a weekend, I also visited the Vermilion Point Preserve of The Little Traverse Conservancy. I lived here for a season when working as a field researcher. Later while a board member of the observatory, I actually helped play a key role in the acquisition of the preserve by the land conservancy. The preserve also contains the Vermilion Station of the United States Life-Saving Service. This precursor of the Coast Guard went into operation on the Great Lakes in 1854 and the established lighthouses and life-savings stations about every 10 miles along the shipwreck coasts of these freshwater oceans. On this trip, I visited Whitefish Point (est. 1848), Vermilion Point Station (1876) and Crisp Point Lighthouse (1902).
The song for soundtrack of this 4k folk pop music video is "Shadows" by my daughter Aspen Jacobsen. It is from her debut Americana folk-pop album 'Aspen.' Please subscribe and select the notification bell for our channel to be notified when we publish our next 4k folk pop music video.
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