I hope the Michigan parks have started posting prominent signs with those excellent conditions and gear warnings at the popular launch areas. During the years I lived there and frequented the coasts from Holland to Algoma I don’t remember seeing such warnings, though I did regularly see the Coast Guard patrol boats around Grand Haven and Muskegon turning back ill-equipped paddlers in inappropiate craft (like inflatable rafts and rec boats) who were attenpting to exit the harbor channels into open water.
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Though we lived far from the area my family spent summers on Lake Michigan with the grandparents and cousins who lived along it and were at the beaches nearly daily when the weather cooperated. As soon as I was old enough my Dad (who had grown up in Muskegon) taught me what to do if I got caught by undertow or a rip current while out swimming.
