Beaver Island

While I cannot match Jay's exciting cross country to Washington in
unstable air, ADIZ, 11K runway, etc., we did do the bi-biennial trek up
to Beaver Island...

Dang, that sounds like a great trip, Denny. We wanted to get up to
Mackinac Island badly -- but now, thanks to you, we've got a *new*
destination to aim for...

Is there *anything* on the island that the kids would enjoy, or should we
leave 'em home?

The other interesting history is
of King Strang and his harem and Mormon followers followed by his
assassination and then the mainlanders came over in boats and
physically ejected the Mormons from the Island...

The history of the islands of the Great Lakes is fascinating and often
extremely violent/tragic. Madeline Island (in Lake Superior) has become an
off-limits "place of evil" to Native American Indians because at one point
it became over-populated and the natives resorted to cannibalism to survive.
Many of the islands have tales to tell...

That and the sea-faring stories of the Great Lakes will raise the hackles on
the back of your neck. Incredibly dangerous waters, incredibly brave men.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Is Beaver Island the one with the wreck of the "Francisco Morazon"
freighter that ran aground in the 60's, or is it one of the Manitou's?

I flew up to Superior this weekend from Madison to run Grandma's
Marathon and toured the "William Irvin" ore boat and the USCGC Sundew,
and the whaleback freighter S.S. Meteor. Fascinating stuff, this Great
Lakes maritime history. Flying home I flew across the SW corner of Lake
Superior. It was calm, beautiful, a freighter or two at anchor outside
the Duluth breakwaters, hard to imagine the fury of the lakes in a
storm!!!

Ryan W.
Madison, WI

No wrecked freighter I noticed, Ryan... Probably somewhere else...

denny

wrote in message
ups.com...
Is Beaver Island the one with the wreck of the "Francisco Morazon"
freighter that ran aground in the 60's, or is it one of the Manitou's?

I flew up to Superior this weekend from Madison to run Grandma's
Marathon and toured the "William Irvin" ore boat and the USCGC Sundew,
and the whaleback freighter S.S. Meteor. Fascinating stuff, this Great
Lakes maritime history. Flying home I flew across the SW corner of Lake
Superior. It was calm, beautiful, a freighter or two at anchor outside
the Duluth breakwaters, hard to imagine the fury of the lakes in a
storm!!!

Ryan W.
Madison, WI


That wreck is on the south shore of South Manitou as I remember

Death's Door survivor

yep, I googled the name and an aerial shot came up:
http://www.airphotona.com/stock/imag...36&catnum=5000

There is absolutely nothing for your kids... Make it a twosome with
Mary... It's slow, quiet, and tranquil... If you have done Door
County, etc., it won't measure up I suspect... It's certainly not
Mackinac Island with shops lining every street... There is no Grand
Hotel... No horse manure ripening in the sun, either... It will make
a nice 4 hour stop on the way to somewhere else... Bringing bicycles
would enhance your ability to cover ground..

The airport limo is not allowed to carry pets except seeing eye dogs...
He looked at our furball of a Chipoo (named Pasta) and said, "Looks
like a seeing eye dog to me.", and that was that... One resturant in
town refused to let us have Pasta outside on the patio during lunch so
we went up the street to another and they have a big porch... Pasta was
more than welcome on their porch (and got lots of petting from everyone
that went past as he is a cute little rascal and he knows it) and we
had a great lunch... I had an outstanding grilled Portobello mushroom
and veggies sandwich on freshly baked french bread buns...

Welke airport is the commuter air taxi terminal... Used to be a private
gravel strip for the air taxi's, but with paving (and I suspect with
some tax dollars) it has become a public airport... Trees are close in
on the wind favored 9-27 and a pilot needs to have some minimal skills
at short fields... Otherwise he can go to the big, empty, airport out
in the middle of the island... A tired, refugee from a junk heap, 150
horse Apache, at very close to gross weight got in and out of Welke
just fine...

There is a bicycle rental and gift shop on main street that has three
(count em) tandem airplanes (Cub, etc.) on floats at the back door that
hop tourists on flights around the island...

denny