Thursday afternoon, after the Glass Bottom Shipwreck Tours, Anne-Marie and I went on the Grand Island Bus Tour. This tour was about the history and geology of the large island, it’s 4 miles wide and 7 miles long, and has been in private ownership until the 1990s.
This is the building where it starts, boat rentals, bicycles, or a pontoon boat to transport your own bikes. We road in this boat to and from the island.
This sign was one of the first official signs, for us to see on the island.
This boat was built around 1907 out of oak, and has a inboard motor. The boat served a resort on the island till about 1956.
Our guide telling us about the restored 1845 cabin, the timbers close to the ground were too rotted, and were replaced. When the cabin was used by the resort as a rental, the interior was paneled with wood, the forest service removed the paneling, and found peeling paint on the original timbers. Under the paint is graffiti from the 1800s, and they are allowing the paint to peel naturally.
We walked into the old Cemetery, and found headstones from the mid 1800s.
This is a power system transformer vault, that has been put into service as a food locker for campers. Bears have tried to open the locker, and there are scratches on the top. The tree shows bear claw marks, and its poke holes from the bear climbing it. They guess that there are only 6 or so bears on the island.
Pictured Rock National Lakeshore in the far background.
Our guide explaining about the archeological dig. Everywhere that they have dug, neat stuff has been found, stone tools, spear and arrow points, and the like.
Anne-Marie and I took a scenic walk through the woods, and the trail seemed to take us from one viewpoint to another, this is a wide picture of the brilliant green moss that was all along the trail.
Dinner time was late for us, after 7 PM, and we ate at the Dogpatch Restaurant.
Friday we pulled the trailer to Sault Ste Marie, Michigan, and we are parked at a RV Park on the water of the Locks
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