September 30, sunset

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Took a walk on the beach in Muskegon. After such a wild windy day I thought I would find some interesting things on the beach. It was scoured clean with the exception of some leaves. The sunset was beautiful.

Wind made the trip pretty chilly, need to start bringing gloves. There were no dare devils out wind surfing, only the gulls.

back to sunsets on the beach

Hello
Decided this might be a good night for a sunset so I set out to go to Grand Have City Park.
First off there was a street fair and there is construction on the main road to the park so I followed the detour signs.
You never know what you will find on a detour and I found some lovely dark woods that merit a hike in the daylight. I think when the fall colors come in or the first snow fall, the woods will be one of the first places I go.
I finally made it to the park only to find dozens of wind surfers. I would love to try it, maybe some place warmer.
I hope you enjoy these pictures. Next blog will be about our plans for cool hand. Tom is getting quotes and lists of equipment and Wednesday 9/28 we will be hauling her out for the season.

Home and house re-organizing

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Tom and I are in the throes of re-organizing the house. The garbage collector is in for a shock. Old rotted sails, stuff from the garage, things we haven't touched in ages, are being recycled, tossed or donated. It is amazing how much you collect and after living in a smaller space you realize you really don't need it.

great sunset.

I thought I would post some of the pictures that never made it in the original postings. I think are pretty neat.

this was reflections off the water

one of our fog days

I am planing to go to the beach tonight to watch the sunset, lots of clouds and a good stiff wind should give me some interesting pictures.

Port Washington to Muskegon

The sun rose right with only a puff of wind. We were going to leave and quickly got gear stowed away and started out.

First there was the gauntlet of fishing boats to get through. We motored a good 6 nm before we had enough room to put up the sails.

The wind was right were they said it was and we were on a beam reach 4+knots.

We were visited by a very tiered little bird. It stayed around for awhile then flew off south.
A freighter passed us by - it looked like it had a house on the aft section and you can see it in the picture.  Sunset was beautiful and we had a 99% moon. Ten miles from shore we appreciated the moon light as we had dense fog, Luckily it burned off a mile before the entrance to Muskegon Lake. Found our mooring and grabbed on first try. Home, we left at 8AM CST and arrived 11:45pm EST sailing 95% of the way.

our visitor- anyone have an idea what kind of bird it is? I could not
find it in my book.

I might have been out in the sun to long but this looks like a
cow to me- no I did not hear it mooing. :)

The shadow looks a little like a moose- ok, it was a long day.

We are home now- going to do some short trips and get ready to pull Cool Hand out for the season.

Saturday, moved the boat , walked to light house, getting ready to come home

Well after much deliberation we decided to move from our slip that was close to the shore ( very close to the shore) and moved to the end of the pier. We want to leave very early tomorrow morning that thought it would be easier on the neighbors.
There was a sail boat race on the lake so Tom and I walked out to the lighthouse.  It is a beautiful summer day.