Day 31 – Wednesday, June 23, 2010

N – 46° 24.809’

W – 086° 39.173’

Marquette, Michigan

The morning started out with rain accompanied by light hail! The sun has been hiding behind the clouds which are obscured from time to time because of haze and fog! Today was a good day to stay in port and sight see.

John and I rented a car from “Rent-a-Wreck” for a few days. It’s good enough to get us to the sights to far to walk to. It’s actually a great deal for $35.00 a day and 100 free miles that I’m sure we’ll use them all.

We went to Presque Isle and watched an ore carrier "Pathfinder" dock then fill its holds with taconite. You would think the process would take many hours but the ship is in and out within a few hours. The four of us were fascinated just to stand there and watch.

We located a very nice restaurant for lunch called COCO’S. It’s close to the waterfront and worth the time to locate it! We’re considering it for dinner tomorrow evening.

The next stop was the Marquette Maritime Museum and Coast Guard Light house. This area is filled with ship wrecks so there are plenty of artifacts to view in the museum. Again it turned out to be a worth while stop.

While returning to the boat we made a quick trip across town to Wallmart, to purchase food and beverage before returning to our foggy marina.