"katysails" wrote in message

Yeah, but that was an abnormal high....Mr Sail's remembers when there was
a
great stretch of beach out to the water when his parents owned the
property
at Holiday Beach just south of Pen****er....said for most of his boyhood,
there was lots of sand...whole thing's cyclical...what comes up must go
down
and vicey versy....

Mr. Sail's recollections are spot on. My grandfather used to tell me of the
huge expanse of beach in front of his home near St. Joseph. If Army Corps
of Engineers' records are to be believed, we are fairly close to the median
(not the mean, however) water levels over the past century as we speak. I
also recall reading some early 20th century shipping log condensations
reporting extensive shoals throughout the shipping lanes on the Great Lakes.
Guess we've gotten spoiled by deeper water.

Max