Friday, August 18.2017 continued
I finished the day checking out a few gift shops and visiting a nice
local maritime museum with a very friendly lady who filled me in on some of the
information about the fishing and logging industry on the island.
That night we rode our bikes out
to a nice restaurant in the old rectory of the Catholic Church across from the
Cemetery. They had cut the church in
half and moved it sometime in the last fifty years but the rectory had been
repurposed.
Saturday August 19, 2017
The winds were dying down and it looked like we might only have on day
to get across Lake Michigan before they started again. So we set out 75 miles across the lake to
Washington island, on the Door Peninsula with the somewhat calmer waters of
Green Bay. After a very long day we
landed in a calm marina and I took off for a 5 miles bike ride to get the kinks
out. The marina had charcoal grilles so
I made our favorite dinner, grilled rib eye, sauted mushroom and onions and green
salad and some good Michigan corn.
Sunday, August 20 , 2017
After a bike ride and breakfast at the Red Cup Café we opted for the
Cherry Train Tour of the Island. The
island was big enough and sparsely populated enough to be a pretty long bike ride.
Saw a nice art gallery and nature center
in an old school. Went to a beach with
polished dolomite rock. And saw farm
museum and a lavender farm, and the highlight of the trip was a beautiful small
chapel size log church built on the style of the old Scandanavian
churches. This Island traces it heritage
to Icelanders who came here in the 19th century.
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