Sunday, August 10, 2014

Day 382 August 9 Petoskey Marina Petoskey MI

Looks like another beautiful day in Petoskey.......57 degrees on the bridge this morning....


Bear Creek
 
 
Wishing Well Park
 
Entrance to a pedestrian tunnel to downtown
 
 
The marina is built alongside Bayfront Park
 
 
Requirement to live in Michigan
Boat....Jog...Bicycle....Dog
 
 
Odawa Casino
 
 
Interesting building
 
 
Driving Tour of Bay Harbor
 
 
Upscale
 
 
Boutique Shopping
 
Charlevoix is uniquely located on an isthmus between Lake Michigan, Round Lake and Lake Charlevoix.  Mainly a resort community with scenic natural attractions, the town's population explodes from 3,000 residents in the winter, to about 30,000 in the summer.
 
 
Main Street is lined with flowers
 
 
Restaurants, boutiques and art galleries
 
 
Waterfront park
 
 
The harbor is among the most beautiful and protected in all of the Great Lakes
 
 
Victorian Homes
 
Landscaping is something else
 
 
Ferry to Beaver Island
 
 
 
Who knows
 
 
Bridge goes up on the hour and half hour.....one street coming and going...you figure
 
 
The "Fairy Houses" and "Mushroom Houses"
 
 
Built in the early 1900s by Earl Young
 
 
Resemble storybook fantasies of whimsical, irregular stone houses
 with wave-like rooflines
 
 
Back at our marina watching the boats return
 
 
And the Sunset
 
 
Lovely Day in Northern Michigan
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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