Sun Rise at Put In Bay...
10-19-2012, 05:31 AM
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Awesome Stuff!
Your story above reminds me of something I learned. The best times/trips are always the ones that just happened. You have so much fun that you then make plans to duplicate it later but of course it's never as good as the first one.
We had a similar one by car one year when we came up for the New Yrs eve Walleye Drop in Port Clinton. New years day was absolutely gorgeous! Mid 70's and sunny.
So we stock a cooler and take the car over on the ferry. End up at Mr. Ed's watching the Rose Bowl game w/the locals. They were having an end of season party and cleaned out the shelves/freezer and dumped everything in a pot and cooked it
Told the bar tender we were considering staying if we could find a room for the night and thought the weather would hold for us to get back the next day. He got us a room that was still open at their hotel and after several more libations convinced ourselves that the ferry would get us back.
End up being a one in a million weekend, made it back the next day before the weather turned back to crap and the ferry ended it's season.
Thanks for the pix's and for jogging my memory.
10-20-2012, 03:07 AM
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My favorite trips there were always very early/late season. Normally made the point of trying to do that once a season.
Your story above reminds me of something I learned. The best times/trips are always the ones that just happened. You have so much fun that you then make plans to duplicate it later but of course it's never as good as the first one.
We had a similar one by car one year when we came up for the New Yrs eve Walleye Drop in Port Clinton. New years day was absolutely gorgeous! Mid 70's and sunny.
So we stock a cooler and take the car over on the ferry. End up at Mr. Ed's watching the Rose Bowl game w/the locals. They were having an end of season party and cleaned out the shelves/freezer and dumped everything in a pot and cooked it
Told the bar tender we were considering staying if we could find a room for the night and thought the weather would hold for us to get back the next day. He got us a room that was still open at their hotel and after several more libations convinced ourselves that the ferry would get us back.
End up being a one in a million weekend, made it back the next day before the weather turned back to crap and the ferry ended it's season.
Thanks for the pix's and for jogging my memory.
Your story above reminds me of something I learned. The best times/trips are always the ones that just happened. You have so much fun that you then make plans to duplicate it later but of course it's never as good as the first one.
We had a similar one by car one year when we came up for the New Yrs eve Walleye Drop in Port Clinton. New years day was absolutely gorgeous! Mid 70's and sunny.
So we stock a cooler and take the car over on the ferry. End up at Mr. Ed's watching the Rose Bowl game w/the locals. They were having an end of season party and cleaned out the shelves/freezer and dumped everything in a pot and cooked it
Told the bar tender we were considering staying if we could find a room for the night and thought the weather would hold for us to get back the next day. He got us a room that was still open at their hotel and after several more libations convinced ourselves that the ferry would get us back.
End up being a one in a million weekend, made it back the next day before the weather turned back to crap and the ferry ended it's season.
Thanks for the pix's and for jogging my memory.
10-20-2012, 06:28 AM
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Thank....
We are scheduled to fly up next week and I keep looking at the calender, weather reports and Sonic trailer.......and thinking about it.
Not this time though.
On the islands, in season I'd never think of taking a car over and normally the ferries schedule to prevent this for the weekends. Out of season though, I always enjoyed those trips as there's no island traffic and it is way different being there w/your own wheels.
I do still remember the locals harassing me (after deciding to spend the night) about all the tourists that have gotten their cars stuck on the island for the winter
