More lighthouse sightings

July 9 – Our adventure took us north today!  We stopped in Whitehall at the post office and

White River Lighthouse

then went to the White River Lighthouse in Whitehall.  It was a windy, turny road to end in one lane.  It’s a beautiful stone home and light house on the edge of Lake Michigan.  I tried walking out the causeway for a good photo and took some from as far back in the yard as I could get.  The causeway, I think, connects the White River to Lake Michigan.

Further north is the City of Ludingham.  What a lovely main street, with Victorian homes that are so well kept.  Some are homes, some are shops and some are museums and bed and breakfasts.  Pretty much at the end of the main street is Lake

Ludington Breakwater
Lighthouse

Michigan.  We parked and walked on the short breaker to see the Ludington Breakwater Lighthouse.  We stopped at the local lighthouse society building and got the passport stamp there and discovered that to get to Big Sable Lighthouse we’d have to enter the state park then walk 2 miles out to it.  I’m still pretty sore from

Huge flock of seagulls in the
parking lot

my fall yesterday an didn’t think that would be a good idea.

We had a delicious perch lunch at Jamesport Brewing Co. in town.  We were surprized at the portion size for lunch but managed to finish it off.  Yum!

Time to head south to Mears, home of Small Sable Lighthouse.  It’s located in a state park that we had to pay $9 to get in, but the lighthouse was easily accessible, right on the beach of Lake Michigan.  It was getting late in the day and

Kelly and Little Sable Lighthouse

most people were leaving so it wasn’t terribly crowded and we had no trouble getting parking.  This area has lots of sand dunes and we passed several dune

Sand dunes

buggy rental places as well as those that do dune buggy tours.  It’s another tourist town. 

On the way home from Mears we stopped at Wal-mart and were going to stop for a snack but by the time we finished at Wal-mart it was dinner time so we went home to the RV.  I had some Quinoa salad and Bill had a burger and some glazed carrots.  There hasn’t been a lot on TV.