For the first time in five years, I brought the boat back without breaking it!
Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus… and I also own a working boat.
I took Becki and Maggie out to Lake St. Clair this past Saturday for my friend’s birthday. We started from the Clinton River (South River Launch to any / all the locals reading this), ran across the lake to the South Channel, and the up the St. Clair river to “Pepper Joe’s” in the town of St. Clair. After lunch, we ran back down the St. Clair river and into the Middle Channel and then down into Muscamoot Bay. Our six boats joined a raft of 12 other boats once we got to “The ‘Moot”. After a couple hours of rafting off, myself and two other boats made a run down to The Nautical Mile for dinner. We originally tried to grab a dock at Jack’s, but the place was p-a-c-k-e-d and the DJ was blaring music at stupid volumes. So, we kept moving down the channel and got dinner at the slightly more upscale Beach Grille. Once dinner was over, we made a nice and slow (~40 mph) twilight cruise back to the launch ramp. The trip back was very relaxing except for the last 1 or 2 miles driving through MASSIVE fish fly colonies. Nasty!
All of the boats lined up at Pepper Joe's in St. Clair Michigan.
Maggie and Mom enjoying the sun and fresh air... even though I'm pretty sure Maggie was asleep in this picture.
We bought Maggie a little blow up raft and led her around for a while. I seriously was expecting her to HATE the idea and was reluctant to even try it... but she surprisingly had a blast in her little boat / car. If anything, she didn’t want to get out!
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