We had a calm, relaxing night on anchor and left Friday morning @ 8:00 and headed to meet Waterford @ Pike's Marina in Bayfield, Wisconsin.
We traveled only 16 miles for a total of 863. Pike's Marina in Bayfield has a really nice clubhouse up a big hill from the docks. It is a 2 story new structure with a kitchen, lots of comfortable seating & private baths w/ showers. Bayfield is a cute place with beautiful homes all along the shoreline. Susan Rice is the Anderson Window heiress and she owns some of Bayfield and has a beautiful home & Restaurant along the Lakeshore. The 2 mile bike path to town was fun, it passed the beautiful lakefront homes & took us through the woods.
We shopped a little & had a snack on a rooftop place overlooking the lake. After getting back to the boat, we had walking Docktails, so we could look @ all the boats in the Marina. There is a sail boat charter company that works out of this place, so there are lots of sailboats and we were entertained by watching the newbees being tested on their docking skills before they were allowed to leave the harbor with the rented sailboats. There were also a few trawlers; even a Nordhaven. We enjoyed dinner @ the marina restaurant named Portside. We started our meal outside on the elevated patio overlooking the Lake, but moved in when the mosquitoes came out to visit. Local strawberries are now in season, so they had special drinks, salads & desserts with homegrown strawberries-yum.
We traveled only 16 miles for a total of 863. Pike's Marina in Bayfield has a really nice clubhouse up a big hill from the docks. It is a 2 story new structure with a kitchen, lots of comfortable seating & private baths w/ showers. Bayfield is a cute place with beautiful homes all along the shoreline. Susan Rice is the Anderson Window heiress and she owns some of Bayfield and has a beautiful home & Restaurant along the Lakeshore. The 2 mile bike path to town was fun, it passed the beautiful lakefront homes & took us through the woods.
We shopped a little & had a snack on a rooftop place overlooking the lake. After getting back to the boat, we had walking Docktails, so we could look @ all the boats in the Marina. There is a sail boat charter company that works out of this place, so there are lots of sailboats and we were entertained by watching the newbees being tested on their docking skills before they were allowed to leave the harbor with the rented sailboats. There were also a few trawlers; even a Nordhaven. We enjoyed dinner @ the marina restaurant named Portside. We started our meal outside on the elevated patio overlooking the Lake, but moved in when the mosquitoes came out to visit. Local strawberries are now in season, so they had special drinks, salads & desserts with homegrown strawberries-yum.
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| We had to walk the docks & check out all the boats |
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| This is one of the entries, our duck would have her own boat named after her |
