Our visit to Mackinaw Island was awesome!
We took the Ferry from Mackinaw City (on mainland MI) about a 20 min. ride to the Island. The island does not allow motorized vehicles of any kind, not even golf carts. The only mode of transportation is horse, horse drawn buggies, or bicycle or feet.. Even all the trash pick up and mail delivery and UPS...all done by Horse. The Horses in the pictures are all huge "Bavarian working horses", and they can pull a lot of weight, they average 20 hands high.
First thing we bought on the Island was a couple of sweatshirts, we left the RV at 8:30AM and it was chilly, but we thought it would warm up with the sun, NOT, it was probably 60-65 deg. Needless to say after lunch we didn't need them anymore, so they are just a souvenir at this point!
The Island is also home to "The Grand Hotel" which has the longest enclosed porch in the World, there is a photo of it posted. It is very upscale and expensive and even has a dress code, you have to pay $10.00 p/p for the privilege of walking around the Hotel and grounds. We skipped that one!!! There are plenty of cute shops to explore and lots of places to eat...there are 17 Fudge shops on the Island (Fudge is pretty big all over up here) We have not bought any yet and don't plan to, but I'm pretty sure we've gained weight just smelling the stuff being made, the air is so sweet you can cut it with a knife.
Still having fun!
We took the Ferry from Mackinaw City (on mainland MI) about a 20 min. ride to the Island. The island does not allow motorized vehicles of any kind, not even golf carts. The only mode of transportation is horse, horse drawn buggies, or bicycle or feet.. Even all the trash pick up and mail delivery and UPS...all done by Horse. The Horses in the pictures are all huge "Bavarian working horses", and they can pull a lot of weight, they average 20 hands high.
First thing we bought on the Island was a couple of sweatshirts, we left the RV at 8:30AM and it was chilly, but we thought it would warm up with the sun, NOT, it was probably 60-65 deg. Needless to say after lunch we didn't need them anymore, so they are just a souvenir at this point!
The Island is also home to "The Grand Hotel" which has the longest enclosed porch in the World, there is a photo of it posted. It is very upscale and expensive and even has a dress code, you have to pay $10.00 p/p for the privilege of walking around the Hotel and grounds. We skipped that one!!! There are plenty of cute shops to explore and lots of places to eat...there are 17 Fudge shops on the Island (Fudge is pretty big all over up here) We have not bought any yet and don't plan to, but I'm pretty sure we've gained weight just smelling the stuff being made, the air is so sweet you can cut it with a knife.
Still having fun!
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