Straight South is Chicago!

Taken looking southwest from the south end of the island. A boat heading due south from here, traveling 280 miles, would come upon Chicago. Lake Michigan is a very large lake!

[eDorre]

It is indeed! Beautiful blue and great clouds!

[Domenico Dodaro]

Quite a cruise! I have learned the like is as wide on average as the Adriatic Sea... it is beautiful on the island!

[Diana]

It is huge, fabulous capture of this lovely scene.

[petaqui]

Beautiful place!! Nice view!

[Casablanca]

280 miles??? Oh my goodness, I learned something new today! That is enormous. No wonder your island paradise feels so far removed from city life.

[vonski]

A beautiful place

[Brigette]

this looks like a beautiful place to spend some time

[KoalaGardens🐨]

that really is some lake! fantastic capture :)

[Babs]

Lovely view, it could take you a while to paddle back to Chicago

[FBailey]

And I thought the English Channel was wide at a whole 20 miles across! Lovely layers

[Joan Robillard]

I visited a friend in Cincinnati and was amazed at that great lake. So this looks on the map to be larger. Impressive

[Issi Bannerman]

Lovely view and a great sky.

[Denise Wood]

That's a HUGE lake :)

[Caterina]

Beautiful image and feeling of solitude

[Lou Ann]

A wonderful image. Even though I’ve seen The Great Lakes on USA maps all my life, I had no idea of how large, “great”, they really are.

[Pam Knowler]

Wonderful scene. I am always amazed at how huge Lake Michigan is.

[Marij]

beautiful scene, composotion and colors

[Gosia]

Great capture

[Shell]

Beautiful seascape

[Lee-Ann]

Stunning shot.

[Danette Thompson]

Looks wonderfully isolated.

[mittens (Marilyn)]

Beautiful scenic shot, Taffy.

[PhotoCrazy]

Lovely capture, wonderful composition!!

[carol white]

A lovely coastal scene and composition

[Leon Buijs]

beautiful scene and composition, great image

[Henk-Jan]

Wonderful view with the sand, the lake and the blue sky

[Angelika van Rooyen]

The curve of the shore and the cloud above, shows a great sense of depth.

[Steve Pooley]

Looks like an ocean, a very inviting scene you have captured

[haskar]

Fabulous capture. Great composition and light. Lovely colours.

[Sharon Lee]

lovely

[Elisabeth Sæter]

awesome shot

[Myrna O'Hara]

gorgeous Did you go to Sleeping Bear Dunes. You would think you were lookig at an ocean instead of a lake. love the deep blue in this.

[Taffy]

@sailingmusic Thank you! I've been to Sleeping Bear, but these dunes are on Beaver Island.

[Kerri Michaels]

cool

[Jane Pittenger]

I like how the cloud shape echoes the shadows and grass patch

[Richard Hickey]

Fantastic picture.

[Rob Z]

Holy Moly - that is a huge lake - it's more an inland sea. It's so fitting that the lovely curve leads off into nothing but sea!!

[Marnie]

Yikes, that's one helluva lake. I can only echo @robz in saying it's more like an inland sea.

[Glover Shearron, Jr.]

Nice composition which shows that you are at a fair amount of elevation.

[Milanie]

You have quite the place there - Chicago seems a long way away!!

[Taffy]

@milaniet Thanks for the visit and comment, as always. This is not our place, actually -- belongs to friends whose garden I was watering while the are 'off island.' They do have an amazing setting!

[Helen Jane]

Ah, such lovely undulating relief in the foreground, balanced by the falling cloud and contrasted by the distinct horizon. A most enjoyable composition.

[Vesna]

Nice view. I didn't knew how huge Lake Michigan is.