Boat Houses along Les Cheneaux
St. Ignace Marina
After winding our way carefully through the Les Cheneaux Islands (meaning channels) with about 11 miles of shallow depths and twisting turns, we finally entered the open waters of Lake Huron for the final 12 miles of our journey to the St. Ignace Municipal Marina. St. Ignace is the location of one of the ferry crossings to Mackinac Island and is on the northern side of the vast Mackinac Island Bridge over the Straits. The marina is protected by a huge stone breakwater, and we decided that this would be a better place to keep "Reflection" in view of the huge ferry wakes that occur in Mackinac Island itself or in commercial Mackinaw City, another ferry crossing on the mainland side. As we approached, we came behind Mackinac Island and caught sight of the Bridge as we made our turn toward the harbor. We were tied up by 11:30 a.m., and spent the rest of the day making our plans for how we would spend our next two days visiting famous Mackinac Island. Docked next to us was "Morningstar", a Grand Banks 49, owned by Gerry and Jeanne Cilibraise from Livonia, Michigan. They had completed the "Loop" recently, and had kept the boat in Marathon, Florida last winter, so they shared lots of local information with us about Lake Michigan, and had other suggestions for us about good harbors, etc. for the rest of our trip.
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