Mentor Headlands (the Beach!)

Dr. Jay and I went to get up close and personal with Lake Erie last Sunday at Headlands Beach State Park. It's weird how much it's like a beach on, say, Long Island Sound. Small waves, not that cold, kind of pebbly. I kept forgetting we were on a lake.

On the other hand, it was pretty crowded, and you can't swim out that far, maybe only 30 feet, and then just as we were getting in, the lifeguards blew their whistles and made everyone get out. So in those ways, it was less like the ocean and more like a pool.

It's also the northern terminus for the Buckeye Trail, and there's a lighthouse on a spur of land at one end of the beach that we walked out to.