White Lake - Day 2

The outlook was for 3 to 5 foot waves with winds 15 - 20 knots, building to 30 knots in the afternoon. We could have probably left early in the morning and got in somewhere ahead of the heavy winds but it was marginal conditions. It was a nice day here so we decided to stay.

Spent the morning cleaning the boat and then went to the grocery store to re-provision. I love it that you can buy your wine at the grocery store.

The municipal marine that we are tied up at is closed for the season. You just come in and tie up. Still have access to the hydro, water and power. Virtually all of the slips are empty. There are 3 other boats in the entire marina. The season has come to an end. An empty marina by September 13th is like rolling up the sidewalks. I think they are trying to tell us something.

There are 13 mute swans that leisurely swim around the harbor. What a serene picture.

The fishing boats outnumber the swans tho'. They are catching coho salmon that are trying to swim up the river. When we came in last night, we had to sail a very erratic course to miss all of the fishing boats. One young girl caught a fish as we were passing. Peter thought it was about 5 pounds. A good sized fish. They really take their fishing seriously here. Out on Lake Michigan we would see boats with 2 people in the boat, and they would have up to 10 + fishing rods and down riggers on the boat.

We are about 100 miles from Chicago, where we have made arrangements to have the mast taken off the boat on Thursday weather permitting. The mast will then be trucked to Mobile Alabama. Once this is done we can relax a little. We hope to spend a few days in Chicago. It apparently is quite the city. The canal runs right down the center of the city.

While Lake Michigan has been very pretty and we have enjoyed all of the marinas along the way; it is time to get off this lake.