We left Marquette on Weds morning @ 7:30 AM, I sure don't get to sleep in very often. Air temp 70 degrees already. Sunny & calm. Lake Superior is again like glass-Beautiful! This area is gorgeous, no wonder Ridge moved back up here & Wayne comes to his Camp every chance he gets. I just wouldn't want to be here in the long winter months.
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| Big Bay Point Lighthouse & Huron Mountains |
Big Bay Point Light, est 1896 is currently a B&B. Psychics have identified 5 distinct ghosts inhabiting the lighthouse.
Big Bay harbor is questionable in depth, the Ranger that takes care of the place said we shouldn't try it. Others told us we could get in. So we threw anchor outside of the harbor, put the dinghy down and Doug & Garry went in & sounded it themselves. They decided it was a go. A bit tricky @ the entrance & not much room @ the wall. We had to cozy up to each other. There is about 7 feet of depth. Our depth finder read 2 feet @ the shallowest on entry and now Garry's depth finder is showing 1.6 feet under his boat @ the wall. We need almost 5 feet of water.
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| The unmanned office, very rustic |
We arrived around 11:30. Only a 28 mile trip, with a cum of 607. The Mosquitos were there to greet us. It's all woods @ the dock, so that makes sense. No one was around. We docked without assistance & my Captain did great. We then helped Waterford in.
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| Lumberjack Tavern |
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| Thunder Bay Inn |
After lunch, we walked into "town" not really town, no post office, no hardware store. There are some famous places though! In 1952, a murder took place in a bar called the Lumberjack. That still stands & is open. The defense attorney for the accused wrote a book about the murder & trial. In 1959, Otto Preminger made a movie from the book, called An Anatomy of a Murder & they filmed the murder scenes in Big Bay & the trial scenes in Marquette. There is also a B&B named The Thunder Bay Inn, where some of the scenes were filmed, too. So we visited both places & learned about the story. Jimmy Stewart, Lee Remick & Ben Gazarra starred in the movie. It received 7 academy award nominations. The author went on to become a Supreme Court justice. We would have bought the DVD or the book, if either of these places sold it, but they didn't-go figure. Thunder Bay Inn even had a gift shop & didn't carry it. Both places did have pics & newspaper clippings, etc to look at. Jacque ordered the DVD of Anatomy of a Murder from Amazon to be delivered to us in Houghton, MI.
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| Find the duck |
There were thimbleberry bushes along our walk, they are in blossom but no where near ripe. I love thimbleberries & hope they are ripe by the time we reach Isle Royale. We will get a pic @ some point. We do not have cell service or wifi here.
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| Sippy duck |
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| tipsy duck |
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| Dead Duck |
Arrived in Lac la Belle @ 1:30 PM, the fog settled in on us and became dense the last part of our journey, (Cheryl, we couldn't help it, but with electronics, we are perfectly safe-please don't worry). Waterford was in the lead & did a super job of getting us into the entrance. We are anchored out in this beautiful lake off of Superior, under a ski lift. Miles traveled 36, cum 644. Our temps have now been averaging 60's & 70's-love it. 
Friday morning, sunny & warm so we hiked up Mount Bohemia, elevation 1485. We found marked trails and followed one to a cool ski/summer resort. We talked to 2 people there who were getting the place ready to open this weekend. She said they didn't open in June because that's the buggy season-now you tell us! We have been experiencing more bugs of all varieties than our usual summer vacations in July & August. It still has been very manageable with some bug spray & pics. This place has been a ski resort for years, but they recently built some cabins and they have these cool round canvass structures which are the dining room, bar, first aid, etc. So they are now trying a summer type program; $95/day/person with 3 meals and all activities; kayaks, bikes, hiking, etc. Would be fun. We walked around the place, looked good. We hiked the trail to the top of the mountain, all 1485 feet, where all 3 of ski lifts converged and NO the ski lifts were not running. We walked the whole way. there were unripe thimble berries all over the mountain. Wow, my mouth was salivating. Garry spotted a big deer while hiking and they watched some deer last evening from their boat @ the water's edge, but we saw some big cat type prints on the trail and big deer prints. An added bonus when we climbed to the top of the Mountain was limited cell service, enough to text, but when we tried to make phone calls, they failed. Oh well, we can live without calling, I think. Just know we are doing fine. I am behind in my blog, for those of you following us with the AIS system. 
