Blue Moon docked at the Michigan State Marina Docks in the center of all the quaintness that is Mackinac Island. Like Toronto Island, there are no motorized vehicles of any sort allowed but unlike Toronto Island, there are horse drawn carriages everywhere!
After lunch Dave and I took the 2 hour carriage ride. I'm glad we did because the driver was a pretty good tour director in spite of his often repeated jokes. We saw the famous arch.
700+ workers built the original Grand Hotel in the early 1800's in just 93 days!
The new stables for the Grand Hotel horses.
The rules for the fancy hotel....
Benji was upset that he left his coat and tie at home.
The yards are so beautifully landscaped (they use the excess horse manure compost and it sure does the job!).
We had a nice dinner in town and went back to the boat to watch the weather reports online. High winds expected. On the technical side, Dave says Blue Moon has travelled 500 nautical miles and has averaged under 6 gallons per hour fuel burn traveling at 8-9 knots per hour; oh so necessary while traversing the rocky and sometimes shallow small craft routes of Georgian Bay and the North Channel. Slow cruising allows Blue Moon to get better than expected performance and the crew to get a good view of the spectacular sights.
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