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.
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| WPA mural of the fishing industry on Beaver 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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Monday, August 21, 2017
Again weather dictated our schedule and we headed out across the Gates
of Death, the strait between Washington Island and the mainland of the Door
Penninsula, trying to stay ahead of the weather. We pulled In at Fish Creek just as the winds
we picking up and docked without too much trouble. I checked the local theater listings, not
expecting to find much on a Monday, but there was a play out in an amphitheater
in Penninsula State Park that didn’t look too far for bikes since there isn’t
much Uber around here. Got tickets and
reported to John our plans for the evening, starting with dinner and a well
recommended pizza place at the entrance to the park and a 6:30 show. Dinner was light enough to cycle three
miles. I had already been out in the
afternoon so we wouldn’t get lost, and we had benches with backs and
cushions. Really good play, a comedy about Fish creek and the old lodges
and a movies company looking for a setting for Oklahoma! Actually really well done under the pines and
stars of Door peninsula on Lake Michigan.
August 22, 2017
The next morning the wind was howling and it looked like we weren’t
going anywhere so I headed to town to finish some of the shops. And wonderful glass shop with garden toys
would have gotten more of my money but I couldn’t figure out how to get
anything home. Being on a boat has
really been good for my shopping discipline.
Getting back to the boat John thought the wind had died down enough to
try the run to Sturgeon Bay, 25 miles away.
I wasn’t so sure, but he’s the captain, and a pretty responsible one at
that, so rocking and rolling we headed
down the bay to meet our friend Jim Schauss at his dock on Sturgeon Bay. 20 miles of rocking and rolling later we were
met with a welcoming committee of Don Baryenbruch, Terry Posey and Jim and
threw them our lines to pull us around into Jim’s dock.
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| All set on Jim Schauss' dock |
I was really glad to get off the boat and we
had a great time. I can't believe that neither John or I got a picture of all the folks. Karen, if you did, send it to John and I'll include it in the blog,
August 23, 2017
A lazy day visiting with friends and
getting the boat ready to leave for 12 days and the next morning we headed to
Colorado for the first time in 8 months.
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