Michigan is a very beautiful state. I have spent a lot of time in the north central portion of the state. My family used to have a cottage in Indian River on mullet Lake, in fact my sister met her husband there and now lives in Indian River.

Mullet Lake is part of the Inland waterway and that is my favorite place to spend a summer day. The waterway is a chain of lakes and rivers, spreading across 45 miles to Lake Huron. The waterway starts at Pickerel Lake, and then you go through a spring fed pond called "the black hole" to crooked lake. Crooked lake has always the family's favorite place to water-ski. To go on the crooked river your boat (with passengers inside) goes through locks which raise or lower you one to three feet. The locks were constructed to hold the level of crooked lake up after the crooked river was dredged for navigation. The crooked river comes next, it is the most rustic with very few cottages, and therefore you can go a little faster than on the other rivers. The crooked river ends Burt lake, there are lots of beautiful cottages on the shores of Burt lake, it is beautiful but Burt is my least favorite part of the water way, next comes Indian River which is my favorite part of the trip, and I think the most beautiful, we not only enjoy boating on Indian river but we also occasionally tube from Burt lake to one of our favorite lunch spot "the inn between" a nice little restaurant with tables out on the dock, we park the boat out front. Indian river runs along end of town.

Mullet lake is where we spend most of our time. Its 12 miles from the mouth of the Indian river to the end of Mullet there are coves and bays for swimming or skiing and lots of space for speed boating, in a lake the size of Mullet the waves at times can be really big, I love being in the boat, riding threw those waves.

The Cheboygan River is the end of the waterway but before you can go to lake Huron there is another set of locks but this time the boats are lowered 11 feet and then through the channel into the great lakes. The Inland waterway is something everyone should see, it's beautiful and lots of fun. Michigan is a water wonderland.