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| The state park @ Port Austin |
After our bike ride last night, we met back up on Waterford for a late cocktail party (not my fault, this time) and a comfort food dinner. Jacque is a great cook, I’m continuing to learn from all my talented friends. She made mango salsa, that was delicious. It was cold & windy, so we had oven food again tonight, Jacque made a chicken, rice & artichoke casserole. Who needs those expensive restaurants, when we have a master chef aboard. During dinner, the wind died down some, the sky cleared and the sun came out. So after dinner, we took a walk around the marina, waiting for the pretty sunset. We need to read our camera book a little more, in order to improve our sunset pictures.
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| sunset over Port Austin |
Left @ 9:00 AM, air temp 50 degrees & water temp is 52. It's cloudy with waves 2-3, winds 8-9 knots out of the north. We touched bottom-OMG, heading out of the Port Austin harbor. Doug assures me that everything is OK, but I made him check everything. Low water depths give us an extra challenge, that I can do without. :-(
The water continues to look more blue the deeper it gets, just beautiful. We started out with 2-3 foot waves hitting our right bow, not a problem because we have those wonderfully expensive stabilizers that were worth every penny. Waterford is in the lead this trip, continuing to take turns for that. We continue to travel north, today crossing Saginaw Bay. This entire trip we won’t be out of sight of land much but today for a short time we could not see land. On our usual trips to Georgian Bay/North Channel, we are hours without seeing land.
We landed in Harrisville Harbor @ 3:00 PM. Wow, did we get great service; 4 dock hands who knew what they were doing. Lake Huron continued to lay down, after we were docked the wind died down & the sun came out & the clouds cleared. We settled in & then took a walk to town. We met a nice couple, Vicky, Chris & Hannah docked near us in a Hatteras, who had traveled Lake Superior last summer. We got together for cocktail hour & picked their brains about where to go & what not to miss.
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| what a beautiful view |
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| The Marina office, the only place with wifi |
Traveled 39 miles today, from port Austin to Harrisville, cumulative 218 miles.
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| Our duck went for a swim |
Thanks for reading!!
Love & miss you
After our bike ride last night, we met back up on Waterford for a late cocktail party (not my fault, this time) and a comfort food dinner. Jacque is a great cook, I’m continuing to learn from all my talented friends. She made mango salsa, that was delicious. It was cold & windy, so we had oven food again tonight, Jacque made a chicken, rice & artichoke casserole. Who needs those expensive restaurants, when we have a master chef aboard. During dinner, the wind died down some, the sky cleared and the sun came out. So after dinner, we took a walk around the marina, waiting for the pretty sunset. We need to read our camera book a little more, in order to improve our sunset pictures. 
The water continues to look more blue the deeper it gets, just beautiful. We started out with 2-3 foot waves hitting our right bow, not a problem because we have those wonderfully expensive stabilizers that were worth every penny. Waterford is in the lead this trip, continuing to take turns for that. We continue to travel north, today crossing Saginaw Bay. This entire trip we won’t be out of sight of land much but today for a short time we could not see land. On our usual trips to Georgian Bay/North Channel, we are hours without seeing land. 
We're having fun following the duck! You do a great job!
ReplyDeleteFeel like I am on board. Nice camera work and editing to get photos in blog. I am signed in on a blog I set up a couple of years ago, but never really worked on. Seeing what you have mastered gives me interest in learning more about it.
ReplyDeleteI see through your blog why they call them the Great Lakes. Miss you.