Lake Michigan beaches

Today, I spent most of the day on the beaches to the north of Chicago.  There is quite a long stretch of beach from Loyola up towards Howard and I walked along all of it (some of it twice as started near the northernmost end and went North and then back South as far as I could, before returning to the hotel to get ready for dinner.

The beaches were mostly deserted.  They are sandy for the most part, and quite wide.  I only passed around a couple of dozen people in all the hours I spent there.  It was very windy, though, and the wind was whipping up the sand a lot, which managed to get into the camera lens mechanisms, but I think I've cleared it all out now.  I also found I had collected half a pocketful of sand, just from the wind blowing it!  It was warm (21C/70F) & sunny all day, which was pleasant.