7-3-18 and 7-4-18 Fun at Anchor

7-3-18, 7-4-18 Fun at Anchor

We anchored out at Cat Head Bay on the Leelanau Peninsula.  It was a glorious sunny warm calm day.  There was a nice sand and rock beach that we took the paddle boards to.  We walked along and immediately started finding Petoskey Stones.  For those that are not familiar with them they are fossilized six-sided coral. It is found primarily in the north western portion of Michigan’s lower peninsula. When they are dry they look like regular granite, but when they are wet or polished the distinct pattern show up.

View from the back of our boat at Cat Head Bay
Our take of rocks.
Look how calm that lake is.. Ahhh,, a boaters dream
So pretty…
Black flies were biting us but this little guy landed on my leg and the flies avoided at least that area.

I didn’t do so well paddle boarding that day.  The swells coming from the big lake just took me out a few times.  I’m still learning.  Scott did great, which is a good thing because he had all the stones in his pocket.  He said if he fell in he would just sink and run to the boat.  Such a comedian.  We swam and floated around on the paddle boards.  It was a lovely afternoon.

We got up early on the 4th of July to get to our anchorage early anticipating them to be full for the holiday.  We made it into the south arm of Lake Charlevoix, which is where we anchored.  Allen, our son, came up to join us for the weekend.  He left his car at a Landings restaurant.  We swam, paddle boarded, dinghied and had a lovely couple of days.  We were not in direct line to watch a big fireworks program, but we had fireworks displays going off in four different directions around us.  Some private and some bigger shows that we could still see.  No crowds.  It worked out well.

Seeing we used abused the right to park both a car and our dinghy at Landings Restaurant we felt we needed to give them some business.
The owner of the Restaurant is a Rum enthusiast. They had around 60 different rums on the shelf. Here is a list of most of them. Wow what a collection
This was my favorite. Notice Ernest Hemingway’s name on it. He grew up in this area and many of his writings about fishing were about his summers in this area.

The houses on the lake were stunning.  So many big houses with expensive boats parked out front! Fun looking at them all!

Man look at the stone work in front of this monster home. There is even a waterfall near the top.
This picture doesn’t do the log home justice. It was just off our stern in our anchorage.
Clever! The lake side of the deck is made to look like the stern of the boat . It says “Shaken Knot Stern”
One of our favorites is this boat house. Note in the center is a garage type door that has an old wood boat in it.
One of the many wood boats we say on the lake. There were also lots of fancy new boats as well.

As usual, we had a fun filled couple days at anchor.

Thanks for reading.

Karen and Scott

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