Vacation Day 4 (cont.)

By 1:30 p.m. we had done all that we wanted to do and seen all that we wanted to see on Mackinac Island, so we headed back to Ferry Dock for our ride across the water back to St. Ignace.  There we traveled north on I-75 for a few miles and headed east on Michigan Hwy.134 towards Drummond Island.  We passed a boatload of flowers along the way!

There were many scenic pull-outs along the road to view Lake Huron.

We passed thru De Tour Village where we boarded a small car Ferry(fee) that would transport us across to Drummond Island.

 
There is a large Dolomite Plant on Drummond Island.

Michigan Hwy.134 ended shortly after we arrived on Drummond Island.  The Island is not very populated and we quickly ended up on a gravel road as we searched for the waterfront spit of land that we could see on the Michigan Road Atlas that Greenstone and Thimbleberry loaned us to use in our travels this week.  We were the only one on this road, until suddenly we came up behind another vehicle, a pickup with Virginia license plates, who was going even slower than we were!  Think 7-10 m.p.h.!  We eventually came to fork in the road.  The pickup stopped.  We stopped.  We each rolled our windows down, and the gal who was driving the truck got out and said she was looking for a "Fossil Site" on the northern tip of the Island, identified on a hand-drawn map she was carrying.  Said she had previously been there.  Her hand-drawn map indicated for her to turn left at this fork in the road.  The dirt/gravel road to the left dipped and was completely submerged in water for maybe 30 feet, and who knows how deep!  We opted to turn around and backtrack in our little rental VW Jetta!  As we drove away we saw the gals in the 4-wheel drive pickup head off down thru that water!  On our drive back to semi-civilization, I snapped these photos.

I think there are probably a lot more people up here into winter sports more than summer sports, since there is a lot of snow and cold weather here.  Brrr!

We discovered the Betsy Seaman Memorial and the very nicely done Drummond Island Museum.  Now Betsy Seaman was one tough woman, moving to Drummond Island in 1853 with her husband, who then died in 1863, leaving her to raise their 11 children alone with no schools, churches or anything else.  Quite a remarkable and very adventurous woman!


Here is a cool old barn that sits behind the Museum on Drummond Island.

We than boarded the small ferry for our trip across De Tour Passage back to De Tour Village where we enjoyed dinner, then took the  paved back roads to Goetzville, where Greenstone and Thimbleberry live in the countryside.

  This was De Tour Village as viewed from the ferry on our way back.

When we got to Greenstone and Thimbleberry's house we were pleased to finally meet their son, Jeb, his wife Lisa, and their cute kids, Olivia and Cole.

We felt so welcomed into their home and were served fresh-made raspberry pie (made with fresh picked raspberries from their garden!) and enjoyed a game of cards before bedtime.

How wonderful it is to reconnect with my A.T. friends!  Tomorrow we tour the "Soo Locks" on the St. Mary's Waterway in Sault Ste. Marie!