Dad grew up spending summers at Pine Lake with his cousins. There was a cottage owned by his parents, aunts & uncles. He would walk west to Orchard Lake, dive in and swim to Apple Island where Chief Pontiac was said to have held his powwows. They'd pack a lunch, swim back and walk all around Orchard Lake imitating Indians and then go home.
Now Pine Lake is a private, all-sports, 395-acre lake in West Bloomfield Township, Oakland County, in the U.S. state of Michigan. The Pine Lake shoreline is lined with high-end exclusive homes. In addition to a marina, Pine Lake Country Club is also located on the lake. Property there is now extremely expensive, exclusively rich.