Thursday, June 18, 2009

White Lake

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

We took our time getting up this morning; we had listened to a gentle rain fall all night, we had a hot breakfast, and went to the marina showers. I worked on yesterday’s blog and pictures, and then we went to the store for groceries, a couple of other items, and some greeting cards.

The store was near the Enterprise office so we stop and returned the car and they drove us back to the marina. Diana put the groceries away and addressed the greeting cards (she has a folder full that she thought covered what we need but she missed a couple). Happy 40th anniversary to Mary and Dave (my sister). I got picture ready to post and proof read the blog for the last two days.

Then we went to the Grand Haven Historical Society museum which is in the old train station. They have a nice local museum with several different displays. One is train memorabilia, another is about two dozen model ships, old sailing vessels to great lakes freighters, ferries and Coast Guard vessels plus other maritime items. They have a large collection of bicycles; everything from a wooden 1860 to some of the unusual 1960 bikes. Finally they have a model railroad setup depicting The Grand Haven railroads at their hay day. It is still a work in progress, but looks like it will be very nice when it is done.

The post office was about five blocks away so I walked up there to mail the cards while Diana took pictures of the area. The first shows the second floor patio where we ate last night, second is the bleachers I mentioned yesterday with the museum behind them, then a close up of the old depot and finally a picture of the boat in her slip, the fountain display last night was on a plateau on the hill about directly behind the fly bridge.

I got detained on the way back from the post office at a nice little independent marine supply store. They had a Canadian flag that I had been looking for and not found elsewhere. I bought the flag, a flag staff, mounting bracket and hardware.

When I got back to the boat Diana had proof read the blog entries I had worked on and I quickly got two days posted. Then it was time to get underway, we planned to go to White Lake this afternoon. I did a last check of the weather and although it didn’t look great, there was nothing that appeared threatening.

A little before 2:00 we were headed out the Grand Haven channel, Diana got a parting shot of their break water. We were headed directly into 1 to 2 foot waves with visibility of about three miles, a little bouncy but not too bad.

It was only a three hour run to White Lake and by 5:00 we were headed in the White River channel, the old light house is now a museum. Once thru the channel White Lake opened up in front of us and the Yacht Club is less than a mile to starboard.

Don and Kim Nelson who lived in White Bear for fifteen years and raced “E” boats with us now live just up the hill from the White Lake Yacht Club. I had phoned and Don was down on the dock to greet us. The WLYC does not have general transient docking but does have room for a few friends.

Kim was gone for evening but Don and son Erik got the grand tour of the boat and then we walked up the hill to their house. It is to the left of the house at the left of the photo of the yacht club. Kim will be back tomorrow and the plan is we will all have dinner tomorrow night.

We had a light dinner, meet a couple of the live-a-boards that keep boats at the club and it was suddenly past bedtime. Another long but pleasant day.

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