Crossing our Wake - Lake Michigan Aug 16&17

This will be our last post for a while. Our tentative plans next summer are to head back to Mackinac Island and go north into Canada (being we skipped due to Covid). We will travel the North Channel, Georgian Bay, Trent/Severn Canal, and maybe as far at NY Thousand Island area. We did make it back to Pella with a week to spare for the birth of our Granddaughter. We are back in our house and doing some updates to flooring. We loved the loop and all the wonderful friends we made, some will be for life. Seeing the eastern half of the US from the water was wonderful. 

Not the best picture, but this is leaving Mackinaw City at sunrise heading to Lake Michigan.

Crossing under the Mackinac Bridge. An interesting point is that three years prior we stayed at the same marina and planned the same route back to Sturgeon Bay WI do to wind and wave condition on Lake Michigan. We are heading to Manistique MI to stay on the north shore.

This is White Shoal Light near Grays Reef Passage NE of Beaver Island.

Angie in her standing reading position. She read around 65 books on our Great Loop adventure.

 

A little rain storm and nice sunset at Manistique MI.

Due to winds changing to out of the West we traveled from the U.P. down to Sturgeon Bay out in Lake Michigan (on the East Side of Door County) rather thank traveling on Green Bay. Right where we turn into the Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal is where we officially cross our wake and completed the Great Loop.

The canal right after crossing our wake.

The changing of the flags. Removing our battered White Loop Flag
and raising our new Gold Loop Flag.

The next day we had a photo re-shoot with red AGLCA shirts on with some looper friends from Madison WI. Thanks Watermarks.

We made it.

We rented a minivan with stow n' go seating to get our belongings back to Pella IA.

Unloading our gear at home.
The two black bags in the foreground are our bikes.