Day 70 April 15th to Presque Isle

A day behind "schedule", we have a nice offshore breeze and mostly sunny skies, so we depart Rogers City for Presque Isle in anticipation of a lot of exercise riding our bikes to the two lighthouses, museums and maybe even to the inland lake. It's a 20 mile trip and no need to hurry except for the afternoon forecast is calling for showers and winds after 2:30pm. Steve, from Voyager and Ron talk about all sorts of trawler issues and share their experiences...teak work, engines, delamination, fuel tanks, leaky windows....boy stuff. I start to prepare for Presque Isle.

Pleasant ride over, passing both the old (1840) and the new (1870) lighthouses and keepers homes with nice views from the water.

Last year Ron climbed both to the top, and I was able to make the old one. Views were great from both.

A storm is forming after we are all tied up and anticipating the bike ride. The cloud formations are quite unique, although my shots did not quite pull off the full effect. A water spout tries to develop near shore, We get a quick afternoon storm and then the sun comes out. Wind shifts and we are in for cooler weather.

We change our minds about biking, so, in goes the dinghy. At first we head out towards the old lighthouse and museum, but the wind has kicked up some waves and we have the camera with us. Turning around, we go a bit faster with the bow up and head to the beach.

With the dinghy onshore, we wade around in the shallow sandy bottom and take photo's. Ron wins the "picture of the day". I have been watching these small moth-like yellow butterflies the past few days and cannot get a photo. I finally did get one in the weeds, however, later, Ron got some great shots of them in the sand. Way cool!

Presque Isle in french means...almost and island. That is likely the reason we have passed numerous areas on the waters named the same.
Nice day of play again with a great sunset and Captain Ron movie :)