Around Garden and Fayette

 6-12-2021 - Saturday

We took it pretty easy today, didn't get a very early start, and our only two adventures was a tour of Fayette Historic State Park and driving back roads.  We really like this campground and this area.  It was cloudy this morning, 65, but the sun came out in the afternoon and it warmed up to 70.  Bugs are not bad, the camp spaces are very roomy and its very clean.  In fact, we have decided to stay 2 more days.

The Fayette Historic State Park is a representation of a once-bustling industrial community that manufactured charcoal pig iron between 1867 and 1891.  There are 20 structures remaining, some restored and rebuilt buildings.   We walked most of the buildings, many of which we could enter, checked out the beach.  We also walked 3300 steps, which pretty well did us in for the rest of the day.

The water was really clear, but not the right kind of rocks for tumbling.

From there, we drove to the end of the road on this peninsula.  The road became a two-track before we got to the beach, and the beach was not a good one.

We headed back to town and Joe found another road he thought would take us across the peninsula and then north to Hwy 2.  Our plan was to drive to Manistique.  But this road also deteriorated into a two-track.  By the time we got back to civilization, it was 3:00, too late for another drive, so we called it a day.

We did see one cool thing on this drive, Linnie's "she shed."  I guess I need to do some decorating on my rock shop when we get home.

Joe built us a fire in the afternoon.  The sun came out and it was lovely outside, sitting here with a view of the Bay, watching other people arrive and set-up their campers.  It was entertaining.

All in all, another good day.  We are loving this weather, hating Eastern Daylight Time.  It's 9:30 before it even begins to get dark.  But it's nice to be back in cool temperatures.