Muskrat Point, Grand Island, MI to Shelter Bay, MI: Daily miles 17.1, Total miles 1045.1
A pretty uneventful day. The lake was calm and the shore was generic and heavily developed. We stopped in Au Train bay for lunch and cooked ourselves a good, hot meal. I have been worried about this bay since we began planning this trip. During our travels around the U.P we have seen it have some of the the biggest surf and it is regularly pretty nasty as we drive by. On our trip to our parents houses downstate Michigan right before we launched this bay had waves breaking almost to the road in places and I was certain that we would never be able to make it through this trip. The bay was pretty calm today, with an easy 3 foot surf and a fun landing on the beach. We paddled into the evening but weren’t in any rush because we have to pull out again tomorrow in Marquette so Hannah can start class at Michigan Tech on Monday. No point in pushing hard with so few miles to go. We set up on a nice stretch of sand but we are awfully close to a small resort and I think this might be there beach so we are going to wait until after sunset to put up the tent. It is an amazing sunset.
