St. Ignace and Mackinac Island

Another calm night in the Munising Bayshore Marina. After breakfast this morning, it looked like the winds were barely moving so we figured we might get on up to Grand Marias. And to start out, it was pretty comfortable with just some very light chop. However, as we got back up to Grand Portal Point, we were back in 1 to 2' chop with some 3'. The winds ended up being a few more knots that the forecast... We did continue around to Spray Falls, but decided with 25 miles left to Grand Marias and 20 miles back to Munising, and really only wanting to see the light house up at Grand Marias, we decided to turn around and just go finish exploring Grand Island. We went around the south and west side of Grand Island, out to Williams Island. Looked like a small private island with a residence on it. Rocky shoals around Williams Island, and back in the NW wind caused chop, we turned around there to head back to the marina. Saw a couple of old Range lights. These lights are basically two lights in a row, the back one higher than the front one. Ships line up on those to come safely into the Munising Harbor. I don't think they are really used anymore, but the lights in one of them was still lit. The back tower on both of them were almost obscured by trees. Hoping for a calm night here in the protected marina, with gale warnings from 8p to 11a tomorrow. Winds out of the NW, but we are fairly protected not only here in the marina, but the harbor by the mainland and Grand Island. Plans are to put C-Traveler back on the trailer fairly early tomorrow morning (early for me. lol), and head for home. This has been a great trip all in all.Weiterlesen