This week we've been talking to some Traverse City area media. Evan Perry from MyNorth.com interviewed us and wrote a nice summary for their website. We also talked to Bill Froehlich on the WTCM Afternoon Drive show today. It was fun!

While we usually just consume media, it is interesting to participate, even in a small way, in the process. We are grateful for all the people that are out there trying hard to keep us informed of what is happening in our communities!

One of the perks available at the Beach Comber level of our IndieGoGo campaign is a set of beach stones collected by Kevin Gauthier of Korner Gem in Traverse City. Kevin literally wrote the book on beach combing Lake Huron, so we approached him to put together an authentic collection of stones that are different enough from each other to be used as pawns and scoring markers in the game.

He did a great job. The collection includes 17 pieces: 2 quartz pebbles, 2 basalt pebbles, 2 granite pebbles, 2 limestone pebbles, 2 dolomite pebbles and 2 each of green, blue and brown beach glass.  And, we included a polished Petoskey Stone to use as a season marker.

Of course we know that you can't find Petoskey Stones on Mackinac Island, but it is Michigan's State Stone (pdf) after all.

After much prevarication, our IndieGoGo crowd funding campaign launched on Saturday, May 10! You really should be a part of getting Mackinac Island Treasure Hunt manufactured, so support it at whatever level you can.  Here's a video to get things going: