Mackinac Island Day 3
On Wednesday AM, we walked up the Governor's
Mansion. The tour there was very short - only three rooms
with about 5 or 10 minutes in each room. Interesting
presentation about the history of the house, but not
really a lot to see. On the walk up to the mansion we saw
this carriage.
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I've
searched the Internet without much success for a term
for this type of carriage. We saw a smaller version of
this at The Woods. The driver was a fireman on the
Island and had been to Mansfield for dive and rescue
training 20 years ago. We had a very nice visist with
him.
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The view of Mackinac bay from the hill behind our hotel. |
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The Edwin H. Gott motors by, very close to the island. This photo is actually from Tuesday, the second day, but I'm putting it here to make a general comment about Mackinac Island and the Straights of Mackinac. You can see from the screen shot below, that if a ship is steaming from Lake Michigan to Lake Huron, the course (red line) takes it right past the Island in this rather narrow straight. |
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Our
hotel from the ferry as we were leaving.
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We drove just a few miles over 900. We averaged 67 mph.
Several times during the trip we thought about a previous trip to the Northern part of the Lower Pennisula, and to the UP. That trip in 1990 is documented
here.
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