The Ojibway say that many years ago, in a place now called Wisconsin, lived a mother bear and her two cubs. One day a raging forest fire forced them to swim across Lake Michigan. It was a very long swim. Soon, the two cubs grew tired and fell behind th…
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TUESDAY AUGUST 23RD, 2011
Day 2 in Frankfort, and the wind is a blowin’First thing on the agenda this morning…the bakery!There is a great bike trail that passes next to the marina so we decided to ride off a few of the bakery calories. Our plan was to bike against the wind …
MONDAY AUGUST 22ND, 2011
If you use duct tape to keep your refrigerator door closed…..you just might be a redneck.Or, you learned your lesson about Lake Michigan yesterday and today it will be a different story.We left early and only had seas of less than a foot and a slight…
SUNDAY AUGUST 21ST, 2011
We left Northport and headed to Leland, Michigan. The marine forecast we for 2’ waves or less. What they REALLY meant to say was 6’ seas on the beam!! Which meant we had to zig zag back and forth across our course rather than have the waves rolling…
SATURDAY AUGUST 20TH, 2011
We arrived back in Northport yesterday to find the ODDYSEA had been taken over by spiders in our absence. Ish! We spent the day cleaning inside and out, reprovisioning and spraying nooks and crannies with Ortho Home Defense spray. Take that you arachni…
SATURDAY JULY 30TH, 2011
Our final day of travel on this leg. A short 26 miles from Charlevoix to Northport, where we will leave the boat for 3 weeks while we go home. The sun was shining and Lake Michigan was calm.Much to our delight, we discovered that our Looping friends Er…
FRIDAY JULY 29TH, 2011
Ross changed oil on both engines and the generator this morning while I caught up on the blog. With those projects out of the way, we decided to take the rental car and go check out nearby Harbor Springs and Petoskey. Our first stop, since we hadn’t …
THURSDAY JULY 28TH, 2011
First thing this morning I rode down to the neighboring marina to take a photo of this sailboat. It is the WINGNUTS. This sailboat capsized last week in a sailing race from Chicago to Mackinac Island in which two people drowned. It capsized with 8 crew…
WEDNESDAY JULY 27TH, 2011
Today we explored Charlevoix. Yes, it’s a French name. So it is pronounced Shar-laa-voy. Pretty sounding, isn’t it?I think the flower box on the roof must be part ofa city beautification project.It’s very touristy here so lots of activity a…
TUESDAY JULY 26TH, 2011
The weather forecast was iffy in regards to wind and waves, but we decided to head out and and try it. It was wild at first and we both thought we should head back to Mackinaw City if it didn’t calm down. The waves were 4 to 6 feet and very close tog…
