Moving on down the Lake

Arcadia - we anchored out for the night.  It was calm, quiet and peaceful.  The next day we stopped at Ludington for fuel and then proceeded on to Pentwater.

King is pulling up the anchor and I am driving the boat out of the anchorage back into Lake Michigan.

I wouldn't want to climb back up these stairs.

Pentwater - we spent the night at Pentwater, MI and enjoyed a walk around this harbor town.

Next morning on to Grand Haven.  Smooth water.

 Lots of wonderful homes as we entered into Grand Haven.

This large freighter came up the river where we were tied to the town wall - passing within 150 ft. of us.

See the boats on the left side of the photo.  They are rafted together and tied to the wall behind our boat.  It is now night and the freighter is leaving and going back out into Lake Michigan. 

At 9:30 the Grand Haven musical fountain began its nightly program, immediately across the river from the free town wall where we tied up.  Built in 1962, it is a display of synchronized high definition modern pop music and lights in a 20 minute sequence.  We set on the bow of our boat with boaters Roger and Mary from TaTa and enjoyed the program, along with hundreds of others sitting on park benches, blankets and the grandstand.  

Grand Haven is truly an usual town because of the very large number of boats.  The channel reminded us of MoPac (highway in Austin) at rush hour, but instead of bumper to bumper cars there are bumper to bumper boats of every size and type.