Mackinac Island

We went to Mackinac Island in northern Michigan yesterday with fellow workampers Wanda and Tom Burnell. We took a catamaran with www.arnoldline.com to get to the island. By buying our tickets online we saved $3 per ticket. We all took our bicycles so we could ride the 8 mile trail around the island. Rentals are $5 an hour and you never know what you will get with a rental. I like my bike.

This is like the catamaran that took us to the island.

After we arrived on the island we gathered ourselves together with sort of a plan. So off we went on our bikes making frequent stops for picture taking opportunities. 

Tom studies the map.

This is a garbage collection and package delivering carriage. No cars are allowed on the island so horses get a work out doing the work that cars and trucks do in other locations.

This is an old hotel no longer in use. It was a fine structure in its glory days. The stairway is made of twigs cut to size.

The next stop was the Arch Rock. Leaving our bikes at the bottom we took a gazillion steps up to the Arch Rock. It was a huffing and puffing experience. Yes, that is Butch threatening to climb onto the Arch.

I like this photo but it is not typical. There were more often dozens of bikers on the trail, not two!

Tom and Wanda in the Devil's Kitchen.

You can barely see the lighthouse through the rooster tail spray.

To be continued...