This morning Trish and I had our breakfast and then walked down two blocks to the ferry terminal to ride back over to our car. When you get to the ferry here, they check all of the luggage and the bicycles and then you get them back on the other side. It is interesting to think through all the things that have to happen to have a vehicle free island. Even UPS delivers by horse-drawn wagon! We boarded for the short twenty minute ride.
Only about two dozen people were leaving on this early ferry, but the incoming one had a full load of maybe two hundred coming over for the day.
We have had a wonderful and restful time here, but three days pretty much covers the whole island. Now it is time to head west.
Most people do not realize that between Lake Michigan and Lake Huron, Michigan has more light houses than any other state in the US. Here in this very harbor is one tiny example. It was manned by three people until finally electrified. What a tiny thing compared to what we have on the ocean.
The strait dividing most of Michigan from the Upper Peninsula was crossed by boat passage for nearly 300 years though the idea for a bridge was first raised in 1883. Finally, in 1957, the bridge opened. It is the longest span between cable bases bridge in the world at 5.8 miles. What a feat of engineering and construction…and it only cost four dollars to cross.
After crossing the bridge, we drove 168 more miles to Fairmont, Minnesota in order to move as far west as we could and get ready for the rest of this week.
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