The Great Lakes have over 10,000 miles of shoreline between them. What can you learn by walking that shoreline?

In the third episode of Teach Me About the Great Lakes, titled “It Would Have to Be the Perfect Rock,” Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant’s Stuart Carlton and Hope Charters talk with Loreen Niewenhuis, an author and adventurer who spends her time walking in and around the Great Lakes. Loreen, Stuart and Hope talk about her walk around Lake Michigan, her island adventures and the importance of shoes with a good toe box.

 

Teach Me About the Great Lakes is a monthly podcast in which Carlton—a social scientist who grew up in the South near the Gulf of Mexico—asks people to explain the biology, ecology and natural history of the Great Lakes. A new episode will be released on the first Monday of each month. The latest episode is embedded below. 

 

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If you have questions you want answered about the Great Lakes, reach out to @TeachGreatLakes on Twitter or email Stuart Carlton at jsc@purdue.edu.

Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant is a part of University of Illinois Extension and Purdue Extension.