8-27-2021 - Saturday
Well, today's big news is the announcement by Cody (grandson) and his girlfriend Christina that they are going to make us great grandparents next February. Not sure we are ready for that!!! They just bought a house, so I guess they are going to start filling it.
We really like this campground, and surprisingly, it is not full even though it's the weekend. I took some pictures so we can remember this is a good choice if we are ever this way again.
Today was another rockhounding day. As we drove by the park by the harbor, we could see tents set up and something going on. We don't know if this is where the march is ending up, or a 5K, or something else. But just past that area, they had an old car show going on.
We were headed to Presque Isle park. we had driven this with Dave and Mazie -- we walked out to some of the lookout points and Dave followed us with the car. Fond memories of those times with them. Dave is very ill now, and I know we won't be doing any of these kinds of trips with them again, so the memories are bittersweet. Anyway, the water was pretty rough pounding into shore, had a little surf going.
This is right beside the ore dock that is still in use, but we didn't see any ships in today. They used to bring coal in to the power plant and haul ore pellets out. But that power plant is now being demolished, so it’s probably just a haul out. Later on today, we actually stopped at the railroad track outside of the plant and gathered a cup full of the ore pellets.
But this was another cliff, and there weren't even good, little rocks here -- mostly big boulders. 
Here, a tree had apparently been uprooted, and the hole went clear through to an opening on the outside.
We found our beach, right at the end of this drive. I thought it was Sunset Beach, but I never found a sign. We got a good parking spot (which later became a big deal) but had to walk over a few boulders on the way to the rocks. Joe started working on a little pile and then just sat down in them.
We stayed here about 1 1/2 hours, collected a goodly amount. So when we got ready to leave, I went ahead and got the jeep and drove it to a closer parking lot (a guy eagerly took my parking spot) so Joe didn't have to carry my big rock so far. As he was walking up this path, he ran into a guy working on a dinasauer1 so, of course, Joe struck up a conversation with him, then called me down to take pictures. It turned out, the guy had built this dinosaur to be taken apart -- it was made out of wood. each part was numbered, and he would hide the pieces in the nearby sandpile for kids to find. Then it could be rebuilt. He was now putting iron on the pieces so if they didn't get located, they could be found with a metal detector. He said this was his pandemic project.
this is where the pieces get hidden.
Here, he is demonstrating how the head comes apart.
Joe took the scenic way home, down another road leading to Big Bay, but our gas tank was getting low and it didn't look like the road came out anywhere (it was beside "moose country) so we had to turn around. When he stopped for gas, there was a sign there -- a sign of our times, I guess.
This park is a pretty drive, lots of people use it, and they shut it down to traffic between 7:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m. on Saturdays for runners and bikers.
We never really knew where to rockhound here, but we talked to a lady (fellow rockhounder) in Leland and she told us where to go, to the beach at the far end of this drive. We stopped at the first parking area and could see rocks on the shore, but the steps down to them were way past safety.
We also stopped by the lighthouse pier and could see there were good rocks there, so I told Joe I wanted to come back here. I remember Mazie and I picking up a few rocks here, but that was before I was seriously into this hobby.
Our next pullout was this pretty view. There were serious boulders there, and no safe path down.
I did pick out a boulder in the water that I suggested Joe get for our yard.
Joe walked down in one area to check things out, and ran into a couple people who told him where to find rocks here at that beach we are headed to. It was good to get confirmation.
We could see islands out in the distance. I thought this might be a ship, but it was just a more distant island.
I dug one out (bigger) that I liked and told Joe we were taking it home. He said it didn't fit in his scoop.
He said if there is another pandemic, he will make another one -- a different dinosaur. He talked about one mother of 4 who had two autistic kids and how much they enjoyed this.
We left, got some lunch, then came back to the lighthouse pier to gather some rocks there. They were getting ready for a wedding here by the water. We started to park there but it looked like they were trying to save places for the wedding guests, so we made another loop and gave up our parking space. After we finished collecting rocks here, about an hour, it looked like the wedding was either just starting or just finishing.
Who says we aren't an adaptable society!!!! No more green stamps.
After we rested for a little, I suggested we go get in the pool -- something we haven't done all summer. so we walked over to it (not very far). We had forgotten there was also a hot tub. so I wanted to get in it first. I usually don't like hot tubs -- but I was aching all over so it sounded like a good idea. we walked through the little gate, and Joe said, "there isn't even a handrail." A lady in the pool beside this one responded, "that is the kid's pool. the hot tub is over here." Ooops. We told her the kitty pool is probably where we belong. LOL.
We got in the hot tub, which felt wooonderful to our aching muscles, and especially my back. Then we went over to the swimming pool for a little while, then back to the hot tub. But then it started thundering so we got out and went back to the rv. It wasn't very long before it started raining, and it continued off and on all night, sometimes hard, sometimes with lightning and thunder.
It was a full day and we were tired. Fortunately we had leftovers from Mama Mia’s so we didn't have to go out to dinner. We were ready to take our ibuprofen and call it a night by then.
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