August 30 Arnold's Ferry

Saturday Morning:  We were up nice and early this morning and enjoyed a yummy FREE breakfast at our hotel at 7AM. We had purchased our ferry boat tickets the night before at a discount (!!) at the hotel and decided to take the ferry that was going UNDER the Mighty Mac--the earliest one we could take was the 9AM boat. We walked over to the dock and arrived almost an hour early ... but we wanted to be sure we could get a seat on the upper deck of the boat and ... what if there was a line and we missed out?!?!?

No worries! We were the very first ones there! The 8:30 ferry was ready to go and we watched it leave for the island. We had no problem getting a seat on the upper deck of the 9:00. What a beautiful morning it was--although a tiny bit brisk, but thankfully not terribly windy. This was our view of the bridge from a distance.

I zoomed way in (which I am lousy at doing) on the coast where I knew the Old Mackinac Point Light sits and tried my best to get a few good shots ... but only a few were worth keeping.

Here we are, about to go under the Mighty Mac!

I cropped the above picture to get rid of the people ...

I did the same with the picture below--

The result was OK but not stellar by any means ... a little too muted I think. Anyway--I just wanted to get this perspective of the bridge. Too bad I don't own a boat (!!) and could just cruise under it myself and take all the angles I could wish!

Here is David (well ... the back of him at least) taking photos as well. David loves this bridge. 

Here we are, directly UNDER it!

As we went under the bridge, turned around, and then headed over to Mackinac Island, I tried to get a few good shots of the Round Island Light; however, I was shooting directly into the sun (which I also am lousy at!); so the results were less than optimal. I was a little disheartened by this but then remembered that I have another opportunity to photograph it on the way back to the mainland later today.

!! Do you see what I see?!?!?  A CRUISE ship!!!

Wouldn't it be amazing to cruise the Great Lakes?!?!?!? I looked it up once we got back to my little house and the cost is just ... completely prohibitive. So ... oh well! I live right here in Michigan--how blessed am I? I love Michigan!