August 30, Leland MI
Ken crawled in the hot engine room and cleaned the water
pump filter and dug out a pebble in the water line and low and behold the water
pump is working again. At one point he
thought he was trapped in the narrow opening, but managed to squeeze out or
should I say slide out since he drenched in sweat. The tight space caused him to appear with a
shredded tee shirt. Ken is convinced
that the people who design boats do not work on them!
Later that afternoon it was time to mill around the town. We started at the Historic Fishtown with weathered shanties that are now turned into tourist shops. At one time these working shanties contained nets, fish boxes, needles and spools of twine for mending nets, corks and leads for building nets, a scale for weighing fish and space for cleaning and packing fish. Fishtown has been a working waterfront for nearly 150 years.
Yesterday, at Northport we met Larry, Sherry and Ms. Peaches their toy poodle on Lady KK. This is the first Looper we have been in contact with that is actually doing the loop this year. We went to dinner with them at Riverside and enjoyed their company. They plan to leave for the WI side tomorrow and we sill stay on the MI side. Hopefully, we will met up with them again in Chicago.
Point Betsie Lighthouse constructed in 1858, marks the all-important entrance to southern end of the Manitou Passage, a once-vital maritime shipping channel. |
Loop Dreams docked at Leland.