Last Spring I went with my family and a close friend of ours on a long weekend camping/hiking trip. Our destination was South Manitou Island which is a beautiful spot out in Lake Michigan. The camping is all primitive sites, tents only. Only a few sites even had their own burn pit for camp fires and cooking. There were restrooms so I guess it wasn't quite that primitive, but the closest store was an hour long boat ride back to main land, so forgetting something was a bad idea. The Island was really pretty and was a fun place to visit, but the little town where we launched from was really neat.
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| fish nets drying on a wheel |
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| This place was for rent, I thought about it |
Fish Town. Literally a very small town built around the fishing industry hence the name. This would be the kind of place I could really get used to living in if it was still a productive industry there. It now caters to people of all sorts who are on vacation either passing through or heading to one of the islands to camp for the weekend.
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| This was the majority of the town |
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| This was the dam |
What a cool place! Great photo really make it all the more cool. How was the fishing around there? I need more information.
ReplyDeleteLooks like a pretty cool little place to explore. Is that rental still available? :-)
ReplyDeleteSanders...I think it might be :)
ReplyDeleteCofisher.... I personally did not fish there but, I am assuming the town is called "fish town" for a reason, just a guess.
ReplyDeleteWow that place looks like make believe. I once drove south of Yosemite to a little town called Fish Camp to get a license, and no one there sold fishing licenses. I was completely baffled. Great pics. I think my wife will be wanting to take a trip there once she sees this post. Tight Lines.
ReplyDeleteGreat post Luke, and awesome pictures. Yeah, Fish Town is a really cool spot, it looks more like New England than the Midwest. To anyone who's wondering- there's great fishing to be had all over that area, and the peninsula is loaded with wineries, orchards and cute little towns.
ReplyDeletethanks for the Extra info FR, I hadn't thought to mention all the wineries. The wineries have a taste testing tour of some kind quite often in the Lelenau penninsula/Traverse city area.
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