September 3 - Mackinac Island, Michigan

We left Thessalon, Ontario after spending three days there (something like the joke: "we spent a week there one night").  It rained for a couple of days, but we enjoyed it.  There were three other boats there (EOS, Panda Bear and Gran Vida).  We had a great time getting to know them, dinners together, etc.  And the people of Thessalon were very friendly, especially Ronnie who works part time at the marina & is a wealth of local knowledge.

We went to Drummond Island on Sunday to clear customs and then anchored out in Harbor Island.  It was a beautiful night to anchor out, with the full sky of stars and Milky Way.

From there we went to DeTour Village for one night, then to Mackinac Island yesterday.  If you haven't been to Mackinac Island in Michigan, it's a little out of the way, but worth a visit.  The downtown looks like Disneyworld's main street.  There are no cars.  Only horse manure, (a lot of) bicycles, plus horses.  We could smell the horse manure on the way in before we even reached the dock.

We're going to stay here two or three days to ride the bikes and explore the island. There is an 8 mile ring road & lots of park trails with elevation, views, gardens & rock formations.

This will probably be one of our last stops before we go to Cheboygan to start the process of cleaning up the boat and getting our stuff off.  And find a car to visit some of the people we met along the way, plus others we missed.