Presque Isle

The Presque Isle Marina was also very nice but the food was far away again. We were told that the proprietor would pick us up at the marina but he said they were to busy to spare someone. So we walked, but it ended up being further than we were told by the marina employee. Fortunately, the employee's son, who was there when we discussed the restaurant saw us as he was driving by and brought us to the restaurant. Since it was close to closing when we finished, the proprietor brought us back to the marina.

Presque Isle Marina from the road

Marina from the end of the break wall
There was a lighthouse at one of the points that made the entrance to the bay that the marina was in. Had we been there sooner, we could have toured it.

Lighthouse at the end of the bay that we could have toured

Looking across the entrance of the bay from in front of the lighthouse. What appeared to be white sand from the boat seems to be round white stones and sand. I'm not sure if the stones were put there to stop erosion or if the coast is like this naturally. It seems they are likely natural since the water is full of stones, so what we first thought were white sand beaches from the boat are probably really stones.


Lighthouse keepers house
Monument to past lighthouse keepers

The day we left Presque Isle for Roger's City was another calm day. The lake was a water skier's paradise with no wind and no waves. As we motored along the coast we saw the tallest lighthouse on the Great Lakes. The keeper appears to have a pretty big house.

As we've gone further north, it's clear from the coastline that we are moving away from civilization. In going from Presque Isle to Roger's City we only saw one house, a pretty big one, but otherwise nothing but pine trees. It was pristine Michigan coastline on Lake Huron. One observation that we had was how clear and blue the Lake Huron water is, hence the name of the Blue Water Bridge in Port Huron.

Some islands off the coast on the way to Presque Isle

A point jutting into the lake
Tall pines along the shore

If you look closely, you can see the rocks underwater. We are in 20 feet of water here.

The only other thing that we saw, one on each leg the last two days, is a gravel pit. At one we saw a ship come in and dock. We were to far away to get a good picture of that. The gravel pits were near the towns.


Since we didn't have many miles to travel and we started pretty early, we were going to get to Roger's City before check-in time, so we sailed for the last part with the minimal winds. Since we had started to head west, the light winds that were coming over the bow were now coming over the side of the boat, allowing us to slowly move along under wind power.


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