Good morning!!  We are up in time for a great sunrise.  Even before the robin gets the first worm!!  We have a 60 mile cruise today.  Should be an easy run from Mackinaw City to Petosky, MI.  At least, on the charts, it looks easy.

Today’s Route to Petosky, MI

Leaving Mackinaw City, MI

Sun peeking up at 6:30am

The Mackinaw Suspension Bridge is the longest suspension bridge in North America.   It is almost 5 miles long.  When the sun was setting yesterday, the cars going across the bridge looked like sparkles.  Neat affect.  This early morning, the bridge is just starting to wake up with the sun shining on the supports.   This bridge connects upper and lower Michigan.   Prior to the bridge, the only way across the Mackinaw Straight was by ferry.

Mackinaw Bridge

Do you see what a great travel day today is?  See the flat water?!  Oh my goodness.  Waiting a day was a great idea.  I wonder who decided that?!?

7am Early Morning

Distance is really deceptive out here on the water.  The White Shoal Light is 125 feet tall.  It looks like a candy cane.  Red and white striped.  The light doesn’t look 125 ft tall.  The beauty is that it can be seen for miles and miles.  That is the point, after all.

White Shoal Light – 125 ft tall

Grey’s Reef Light – 82 feet tall

We looked into the distance and saw clouds on the horizon.   Blue water.  Blue skies.  Hardly a whisper of wind.  White clouds.   Clouds, right?  Looks interesting.

9 am Clouds??

9:12am The clouds are getting closer?

Not Clouds!!  FOG.  What in the world??  Right out of an old SyFy movie.  Fog in the middle of Lake Michigan.  Of course, there is!

Fog as I look behind the boat

We made sure we had our radar on.  We saw several “blips” on the chart plotter.  A couple didn’t change course and were coming straight for us.  Oh NO!!  Wayne adjusted our course to get out of their way.  2 trawlers passed us by within a 1/2 mile going north.  No big deal.  But, they didn’t alter their course. When they got with that 1/2 mile, I was able to see them through the fog.  Surely, they saw us on their radar?  We saw one huge blip on the radar that we never did put our eye balls on.  They must have been over 2 miles away.

Fog bank

Look at the next picture.  You can see the fog bank we cruised out of.  Amazing.  Like a line of clouds above the water.  On this side, blue skies.  On that side, fog.

Fog Bank

We drove in fog for about an hour before we turned toward Little Traverse Bay toward Petosky, Michigan.

Welcome to Petosky Marina

A good day on the water.  We are safely docked.  Dinner made.  Ready for bed.  Wait… I need my sunset picture.  Here it is!

Sunset at Petosky, Michigan