Today we drove from Montague to
Petoskey, via Ludington, Manistee, Sleeping Bear Dune National
Lakeshore, and Traverse City.
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We just drove through Ludington, but it
looked a very attractive town. We stopped in Manistee to take a photo
of the SS City of Milwaukee, a retired car ferry, that is now on the
National Register of Historic Sites, and to buy some food for a
picnic lunch.
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| SS City of Milwaukee |
Then onto Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. The
countyside today was much more interesting, finally some hills!
Sleeping Bear Dunes is an area of sand
dunes created from sand blown across Lake Michigan from Wisconsin.
The dunes tower 450 feet above the lake, awesome views and a really
interesting place to visit. We saw people who had descended the dunes
to walk along the beach, which with the color of the water looked
like something out of the Caribbean! We saw a couple of guys
struggling to climb back up the dune, must have taken them almost an
hour to get back up!
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| 450 ft high sand dunes |
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| Sleeping Bear Dune |
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| Overlook, 450 ft above Lake Michigan |
After all that excitement we had our
picnic lunch and then we set off for Petoskey by way of Traverse
City. Traverse City sits at the base of two large bays and has an
amazing waterfront aspect. On arriving in Petoskey, we found our
hotel the Bay Inn had a great view of Lake Michigan so we had a cup
of tea sitting outside admiring the view. For dinner we ate at a
local tavern and drove through a part of town where all the homes are
Victorian. It's actually a Methodist camp from the late 18
th
century, a Chautauqua. There are about 450 cottages there, really
homes! On the way back from dinner drove through the Gaslight section
of town, looks really nice and we could see why this would be a
popular vacation resort for Michiganers.
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| Downtown Petoskey at sunset |
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