Adventures of Boreas

July 19, 2019 - Marquette to Munising

July 21, 2019 - Munising to Grand Marais

We had an uneventful trip from Marquette to Munising on Friday, July 19. The weather was beautiful and the seas were calm. We stopped at an anchorage in Murray Bay off Grand Island for lunch. If it had been the perfect anchorage we would have stayed the night, but it was more open than it looked on the chart, so we headed to the docks in Munising after lunch.

We stayed a second night in Munising in hopes of having a great weather day as we travelled back past Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore to Grand Marais. We were very happy with that decision as we ended up having a lengthy (and un-forecasted) rain event that lasted the majority of the afternoon.

The sun/cloud forecast was definitely in our favor for the trip to Grand Marais although the wind and waves were less than ideal. We had hoped that sun and blue skies would make for perfect picture taking as we motored by the Pictured Rocks. Unfortunately we were at the wrong time of the day and the sun angle wasn’t great - the Pictured Rocks were still beautiful and I did get some pictures, but clearly we weren’t there at the perfect time. I guess that means another trip to Lake Superior someday!

We will be in Grand Marais until we get good wind/wave/weather conditions for the long day to Sault Ste. Marie. Fred says maybe Wednesday.