De Tour Michigan

Well it happened again. Virtually no wind. We started out motoring and noticed that there was some wind mid-morning so we set the sails. That lasted an hour and the wind was gone for the rest of the day.

This is what the day looked like. No wind, no waves, cloudy, foggy and cool.

Lighthouse marking the channel to De Tour.

A mine on an island across from De Tour.

The ferry to the island across from De Tour.

De Tour (as opposed to detour) is French for "the corner". It is right at the St. Mary's river that comes from Lake Superior. It is in a remote area about 45 minutes east by car from the Mackinac Bridge. We ate at the Mainsail Restaurant that was two tenths of a mile from the marina. I had a fried Whitefish dinner that was quite good. They had a very limited beer menu, so we went with Bell's Oberon, a very good wheat beer. After that we stopped at the De Tour Village Inn for a beer. They had Bell's Two Hearted IPA, which is very good as well, and an Atwater Brewing wheat that I don't remember the name. 

The marina was small as can be expected in such a remote area, but it had showers and laundry, but no sitting area. It all looked quite new and the showers were pretty big.

NOTE: We will be entering Canada tomorrow so I won't have cell service (no international plan). If the marina does not have decent WIFI, which is often the case, I will have to delay posting updates. The plan is to be in Canada about 9 days.

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