6-15-2021 - Tuesday
Today we were out of bed and on the move. We got up at 7:00 and were on the road by 7:50, stopping one last time in Manistique for breakfast at the moose place. It was 56 degrees when we started out, and got up to 70 by the time we stopped. This was one of the nicest campgrounds we have ever stayed in, and this Big Bay de Noc is reputed to be the Walleye capital of the world. We considered trying to charter a fishing boat here but we never followed through on it.
We stopped at a roadside park just before we got to the bridge in St. Ignace, and I could see a big ship just beyond the little island. At first I didn't think it was moving, but Joe could see that it was. Before we left, it had cleared the island and I got a better picture.
We got to the bridge at 11:05, it cost us $14.00 in tolls. We got a great view of Lake Michigan and Lake Huron here.
There is construction on the bridge. People we talked to at the campground said it took them almost an hour and a half to cross it on Sunday. We got lucky today, we never got stopped once. It took us about 8 minutes to get across (speed limit for trucks and trailers is 20 mph).
We came down I-75 for about 30 miles, then cut across county roads back to the coast. That took a while. We arrived at our campground in Eastport, right on Lake Michigan again, about 1:00. Today was 201 miles. This campground is nice, and our site is just a short walk over to the beach, down a few steps. And it is a rocky beach! We walked it a little and collected a few rocks. I don't think the variety of pretty rocks is here, but at least there are some. Tomorrow we will drive back up Petoskey and Charlevoix to look for those kind of rocks. Hopefully we can find the spot we found the petosky stones in last time. We are here for 3 nights, so hopefully we will have some to take home.
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