A rest day. Reading, coffee, reading, blog updating, egg frittata, washing up, reading. At noon, we headed out for a walk, Tim slowed somewhat by the Jakes Rocks bruise. Walked down to Blair St park to find the lake water sloshing over the beach and the walkway on the pier almost flush with the water. The beach did not furnish any public access at this point so we returned to State Ave and walked along to Bay View park and continued onto the breakwater. No one else was doing this for the simple reason being that waves were crashing upon the breakwater and soaking the path. We dodged the splashes, only partially successfully, and walked to the end to see the lighthouses. An apartment neighbor told us that the lake water is very high right now, the highest it has been in a very long while.
Alpena is a nice town with some stunning older houses, but it is odd that the marina area close to the lake has no bars or restaurants or even a concession stand. The center of town was similarly quite dead, only part of which could I think be explained by the pandemic.
Dinner was spaghetti with shrimp in tomato and basil sauce served with a nice Malbec.
Very impressive pictures, sense of wild water there. Is that lake michigan? do you have a map of your route?
enjoy the next stage!
It is Lake Huron, to the east of Alpena, MI. But this week we traveled north to the Upper Peninsula and saw both Lake Michigan and Lake Superior. I have included maps of each days travel, but not an overall map of the entire route, partly because we don’t exactly know where we are going! Updates coming soon..
UPDATE – map of the whole route now added to the 9/16/20 entry