We had lots of rain in the morning along with strong 15+ mph winds out on the lake. The rains stopped by late morning, and the winds died down over the afternoon. However, we had made the right decision by deciding to stay an extra day in Leland. I wrote and mailed post cards for the Grandkids while the Admiral caught up on paperwork. On the way back from the post office I got this great view of Fishtown looking out toward Lake Michigan in the background.
Given the uncertain weather we had lunch on board, but by mid-afternoon the Admiral decided that it was nice enough to scrub the exterior of Lucky Us. I put on my usual boat washing garb of swim suit and water socks along with a long sleeved shirt and sweatshirt to fend off some of the cool wind. We gave the flybridge a good scrubbing as well as the walkways around the salon on the main deck. It was at that point that my scrubbing muscles gave out.
One of our fellow Loopers had come by the boat earlier to invite us to "Docktails" with a bunch of the Loopers at 5:00 pm. We got out our trusty collapsible chairs and headed out to join them. It turned out that we did not have far to go since it was on the dock behind the boat in the slip next to us. There were a total of 13 people from 6 boats. We had fun exchanging stories about our adventures so far on the Great Loop. One of the couples had even built their own 28 foot boat especially for the Loop. Around 7:00 pm, someone wisely suggested that it was time for dinner. We ended up with 8 people (picture at left) at the Cove Restaurant in Fishtown. Altogether it was a very fun evening, and for the Admiral and I it was our very first docktails on the Loop. Until we reached Mackinaw City we had seen very few other Loopers since we were out of synch with the general schedule that most Loopers follow. Now it seems, there are lots of Loopers in every marina that we stay at. The view behind out table is out the Fishtown channel.
From the other side of the dining room, I got this great picture of the dam at the end of the Fishtown channel. As you can see, there is a lot of water coming over that small dam. As a result, the restaurant was quite loud with the background noise from the spillway.
We stopped at an overlook to see the sunset on our way back to our boats . Not the greatest sunset picture, but many of us could see our boats in the marina in the foreground as we watched the sunset.
Obviously the skies have really cleared and the wind was under 5 mph so we hope to be on the water again tomorrow headed to Frankfort, MI. We will know for sure when we check the forecasts in the morning.
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