Mackinac Island 8-23-2006, day visit
Mackinac (pronounced mac-ki-naw) Island is a 3 x 2 mile island just east of the Mackinac Straits, which is astride
lower and upper Michigan, and divides Lake Michigan from Lake Huron. The island is a very popular tourist
destination. Only horse powered transport and bicycles are permitted (exceptions are one fire truck, one ambulance,
and one utility repair truck). A bike and horse trail, Michigan Route 185, follows the shoreline all the way around the
island, 8 miles. Several elegant resort hotels are on the island, along with a tacky Main Street, several blocks of
privates houses, and scattered privated houses, some quite imposing, scattered around the island.
"Jet Boat" ferry to the island
View from the ferry, entering the harbor
A nature trail off the shoreline bike route
On the bike route, Mackinac Bridge behind
Gulls and cormorants (from bike route)
limestone outcrop
natural arch (formed of limestone outcrop)
freighter, from hotel garden
In town, near the docks
St. Anne's Church
signs near the Grand Hotel -- pretty snooty, eh?
Grand Hotel and its gardens
Fort Mackinac
Main Street
the harbor entrance has two lighthouses
Mackinac Light House, in Mackinac City, on the south shore of the Straits
The bridge, from the south shore