We left Mackinac Island yesterday very early (this is the sunrise you see left - not the sunset!) and the waves were nonexistent. This lasted for the couple of hours of an 8 hour trip but it wasn't a bad ride at all.
It was only about 5 miles to the Mackinac Straits and the "Big Mac" bridge. It was quite a site - the two towers are over 400 feet tall so the vehicles on the bridge looked like toys.
Steve was working (again) as we traveled until it became too rough to sand - but he had enough time to sand the other removable part of the floor board covering the engine. It was a long trip of 60 miles but we pulled into Charlevoix about 3:00 - tired but happy to have this part of the lake completed. There is a HUGE yacht docked here from the Cayman Islands. If you look closely next to the guy on the dock (in the middle of the picture) you can see the size of the bumper this boat needs.
The marina here is really nice. Many of the cities that accepted funding from the state of Michigan have been rebuilt in the last couple of years with money coming from boating related activities - all very nice and set fees of $42 for us to spend a night. There is a fountain for the kids of the town - and they were using it all day (it was 90 degrees and sunny yesterday). Waves today were to be 3 - 5 feet so we will stay put here for another day. May leave tomorrow - who knows!
The maps below show the general route we have travel in the slightly over 1000 miles (this includes all of the zigzagging around we did) we have gone since leaving New York. Only about 250 miles left to reach Chicago and the way to Florida!
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