Friday, August 25 - Charleviox
We had been looking
forward to Charleviox since John and Karen, our Florida cruising buddies,
talked about it last winter. And FINALLY the weather cooperated and we
could head out to see it. Craig, the ice maker repair guy, made his
third and last trip to our boat, we got gas and pumped out, and were on our
way.
The water was very
calm for the first time in almost a week. Great for cruising. Not
so great - the temperature was 61, so we wore jackets and covered our legs with
the UGA throw Jeannie made for us. I even put on socks. Finally I
wised up and zipped up every window except Danny’s. Better, but we were
still cold.
The clouds were
pretty, but that’s about the only thing we could see on our trip. We were
pretty far off shore most of the day.
The eastern shore
of Lake Michigan is famous for its dunes. This is the first one we
passed, the really tall ones will come tomorrow.
Our first view of
Charleviox was the Beaver Island Ferry. A fellow Looper had suggested we
not enter the harbor for the 2:30 bridge opening because the ferry was big and
fast, and the channel was narrow. The picture was taken at 2:36, too late
for the 2:00 bridge opening, but just right for missing the ferry.
Charlevioux has
beaches! Very pretty ones, too. Not many people were in the water,
just a few kids. And I’ll bet their lips were blue.
This wonderful old
boat passed us as we were idling, waiting for the 3:00 bridge opening. We
found out later that Mr Winn of FourWinns Boats lives in Charleviox and has a
vintage boat collection. Wonder if this one was his. (We found out
later from fellow Loopers that it was.)
Charleviox did not
disappoint! These yards were the first thing we saw in Round Lake
(Charleviox). I want their gardener. (And the money to pay him.)
We signed in, then
took the bikes to visit Karen at her shop, Petals. (Danny would want me
to say that I fell off my bicycle on the way. It was just a little
fall.) I asked her to model so I could get a picture of her hair
style. I am going for a more girly-girl hair style on this trip.
Had it been any
night except Friday, we would have tried to talk Karen and John into joining us
for dinner. BUT B, Karen’s brother, was smoking brisket for “Friday Night
at B’s Lounge” and we couldn’t ask them to miss that. We had been invited
to B’s when we were at their house two weeks ago, and we know how special those
dinners are! We said good-bye, and hope that we will see them on their
way to or from Florida next winter.
It had been several
weeks since we really bought groceries. Most of the stores had been so
small we only bought absolute necessities. Olson’s Farm Fresh Market was
a real store! Complete with wine, beer, and liquor. We bought
enough to fill our folding red wagon that Jennifer gave us completely full,
then headed back to the boat to find places to store it all.
As we got back to
the dock, I took this picture of a boat headed toward us. When we came
back up from putting away groceries it was anchored at the end of our
dock. Of course we had to go check it out and take pictures. It was
a 1935, 85-foot Trumpy “Houseboat” now fractionally owned.
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