Wednesday, August 7, 2013

MANISTEE, MI AUGUST 5

Leaving Petoskey, heading for Sleeping
Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

 Campsite Petoskey State Park
 Little Traverse Bay, heading south 

 Charlevoix, Michigan
Pretty resort town on Lake Charlevoix
real busy with tourists this Monday morning
 Wanted to stop but where to park?
 And we have to find a campsite....

 Lots of flowers lined both sides of  the main street
all through town.  A very pretty view

 Fields of sunflowers

 Traverse City
on Grand Traverse Bay
 Cherry Festival Time and the city is busy  and crowded

 Nice shot of the bay

 Wind power
 Starting to rain-driving straight to Sleeping Bear Dunes.
We arrived there about 11 AM.... our luck ran out...
 the campground was FULL!  Now what??
Let's head south and find a spot.
Crystal Lake
 Passed through little towns of Empire, Beulah, Frankfort,
Elberta, Arcadia, Pierport and finally Manistee


 Lake Michigan
 Found a site at Orchard Beach State Park

 Manistee
 19th Century buildings
 Downtown old buildings renovated



 Manistee has a riverwalk from downtown to the pier
about  1.5 miles.
 Manistee River and channel
 Manistee pier

 Lighthouse







 Theater
Ramsdell Theater
Tomorrow-heading south

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