Post #437707 by Lake Surfer on Tue, Mar 3, 2009 10:52 PM

Polynesiac, thanks for sharing all the great pictures and stories!

Beachcombing is great fun, and there is a new adventure around every point.

While I don't have the ocean, the Great Lakes combined shoreline is 9,402 miles.

The shoreline of the lake I live on, Lake Michigan, has a combined length of 1,659 miles including islands.

In the city I live in, you can walk the shore for miles in either direction.

With a surface area of 22,278 mi, there are all kinds of interesting flotsam that you can find along the beaches and rocks.

Boat bumpers, barrels, fishnets, buoys... all kinds of stuff floating around.

We're approaching the yearly melt off, when the shore ice leaves to reveal all that the late fall and winter storm waves threw onto the beaches.

In a few weeks, I'll share what I find!