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The location of Ottawa Beach, projecting as it does, out between these two bodies of water is ideal from the health standpoint. Never does one suffer from the blistering heat. Here is always a gentle and refreshing breeze coming from one or the other of the lakes. Here always is a view worth looking at. Sit on one veranda and look out over the great lake, see the big ships go by or watch the changing tints of the sunset in the west. Turn to the other side, out in Black Lake, the motor boats are flying to and fro, or perhaps a regatta is on and the beautiful yachts of the Macatawa Bay Yacht Chub are engaged in a race and with all sails set upon their towering masts are keeling over under the smart breeze on a long beat to the windward.

Out on the long pier, you and the children and hundred of others like you will be fishing. The perch, blue gills, bass and other similar fish are almost always biting here. Of course if the fisherman wants some real excitement and a chance to use his fine casting rod and all the trimmings, the opportunity is given him. Black Lake abounds in the black bass and pickerel with now and then a muscalonge to make things lively. A few minutes in a row boat may take a man to the bayous of the Lake, where if he is crafty enough, he will locate the hiding places of the game fish. They are there and the fishermen find them.

Then about the golf course. A very excellent course has been laid out and a Country Club organized to control it. A professional is in charge, caddies are provided, clubs prepared and everything necessary for the full enjoyment of the game is as readily at hand here as in the big country club back home. Within the last two or three years the Ottawa Beach Country Club course has gained no little fame. Some of the best golfers in the nation have cussed its hazards and praised its greens. Numerous tournaments are allowed. Primarily the course is for the man who makes no claim to ambitions of championships, for the man who plays for recreation. On the Ottawa Beach course, men and women, parties of them, many of whom never held a club in their hands before, tramp around the links along the edge of the water and over the hills into the little valley surrounded by woods, chasing the elusive ball and squabbling over the scores with just as much interest as if they were the Chick Evans or Francis Ouimets of the big tournaments. There are, too, some golfers on this course who can make the best of it and they may be seen there daily.

There are opportunities for the more vigorous sports for the younger element. Tennis courts have been laid out, close by the big hotel. These are occupied most of the day. An athletic course has been prepared and several times during the summer the young folks arrange athletic meets in which both young men and young women may compete. Croquet grounds are always popular for the little folks and in many other ways these little ones have been thought of. Ponies and pleasant places to ride or drive them are at hand and there is always the big sand beach where they may dig and play.

Within a short distance of Ottawa Beach and reached by a branch of the Electric Railway is Saugatuck, a quaint old town snuggled down