Sunday, August 9, 2015

DeTour, Hessel and Marquette Island, Michigan

August 7, 8 and 9

We left Sault Sainte Marie and made it to DeTour, the tiniest of little harbor towns. It has one intersection and a very nice marina. The Michigan marinas are part of the Michigan parks system, and they are excellent.

Sunday was the annual Les Cheneaux Islands Antique Wooden Boat Show in Hessel Harbor. We hadn't been planning to go, but it seemed like a great opportunity. After a beautiful cruise from DeTour, we anchored in Hessel Harbor and took a launch in to see the show. One hundred and fifty wooden boats were tied up in the marina – those old, varnished motor boats and speed boats from the 1910s to 1960s.

When we pulled up the anchor to leave, it was hanging onto an underwater cable! We were in about 16 feet of water, and I imagine the cable went to one of the offshore islands. We pulled the anchor up and down at water level, and ran the boat back and forth until Brian was finally able to unhook it with a boat hook. It was a rather startling experience!

We scooted around a point and dropped our anchor in one of the most beautiful spots we found on the trip, a bay off Marquette Island. It is a wide-open bay with a view toward the sunset and crystal clear water. Lots of stars in the night sky, reflecting on the water. When we pulled up our anchor the next morning, I could see it lying like a stingray on the floor of the bay, about 12 feet below us. I was surprised that the clearest water on the trip was here in America in Lake Huron.



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