When I in Awesome Wonder…Michigan’s Golden Coast: The Setting Sun’s Promise

There are few things that inspire quiet reflection, even melancholy self-examination, than the setting of the sun when viewed from the Golden Coast. The setting sun can be viewed from the dunes without interruption because the whole expanse of Lake Michigan lies to the west. The lake is very wide at this point, about eighty to ninety miles, so that the curvature of the earth causes the horizon to be water as far as the eye can see. Because the wave action is relatively more quiet than the...