July 30th: St. Ignace and a shipwreck

Monday we headed back to St. Ignace to drop off Dave and Helene so she could get back to work on Tuesday. Sandy and I took US23 down the Lake Huron coastline through Cheboygan, Rogers City, and Alpena ending up at Harrisville State Park where we got a campsite that backed right up on Lake Huron. Twenty feet from our RV to the water, not bad. And looking out the window at the head of our bed we had a great view of the almost full moon rising over the lake. On the way there we stopped at the Forty Mile Point Lighthouse and the SHipwreck Museum in Alpena. That was a hidden gem, very nicely done and free on top of it. We even found out the story of the Nordmeer, a German ship that sunk off Thunder Bay in the 60s. A part of the deck and cabin house remains above water and we had seen it when we were delivering our newly purchased sailboat six years ago from Traverse City back to North Cape Yacht Club. Now we know the story of the wreck.