THEY DISCONTINUED THE FUCKING CRAB SANDWICH THIS YEAR
I BIKED SIXTY MILES FOR THIS. AGAIN.
I'm laughing but it hurts. It hurts a lot.
>>56089306So, the fascinating thing about Lake Michigan is that it is, functionally, a naturally-occurring rail cannon. Unlike any of the other Great Lakes or inland seas, Lake Michigan has no harbors, it is a straight line from north to south. Wind will travel from the north and become "boxed in" and forced down the barrel. That momentum will build and build and build with nothing to slow it down until it touches the southern shoreline and disperses. Storms can form and rocket out of the Lake very quickly; and the water's currents can go from calm to inescapable, invisible deathtraps in a moment's notice. Those waves you're seeing are about three feet high, I've seen them as tall as ten feet. What you're not seeing is the fast-moving riptide underneath. Of all the drownings and sunken ships in the four Great Lakes, 50% of them occur in Lake Michigan. Yes, anons, The Lake is an angry god and it hungers.
It's not all doom and gloom though for us treasure-hunters: these strong winds and currents pull sediment from the lakebed onto shore. This sediment goes a long way towards making Illinois and Indiana some of the most fertile soil in America, but more importantly, the rail cannon also spits out ancient crinoid (Lileep) fossils for us to collect!