Hello! Wow has this been a busy week! The store has been busy busy with people which is a good thing, but can get a tad overwhelming. And it will only get busier come summer time!
Thank goodness for my trail map. For my latest excursions, I decided one evening to go visit "Crack in the Island" and "Cave of the Woods". This has been one of my favorite little trips because it took me deep into the center of the island that I hadn't really explored yet. I've more been on the outside near the edges. The last picture you see up there is the cave. There were no Indian bones that I could see in this one, and this one wasn't fenced off. I thought about maybe going up to it and sticking my head in, but then I heard noises. At first, it sounded like water trickling in there and I imagined crawling in there to find a massive waterfall in the back (Goonies anyone?). But when I really listened, I realized the sound I was hearing were bats! No thank you! So I snapped a picture and moved on.
I had a little bit harder time finding Crack in the Island. Until I realized it was right up a little hill behind the cave, haha. At first I wasn't that impressed, but then I really saw the big crack and it was pretty neat. The picture doesn't do it justice, which is true of most pictures of cool things, so when you all come out to visit me this summer (hint hint) I'll take you out and show you.
On my way to these two landmarks, I rode my bike by the airport. That's the picture above with the brown fence and the 2 strips of road that you see. It was really neat coming up to it, because I was biking through the woods and all of the sudden, I came to this clearing with the airport on one side and a big open prairie on the other and the sun just broke through since there were no large trees covering it. It was so amazing and being the only one out there it was so peaceful! Another God experience right there.
Oh and when the trail map says footpath, IT MEANS FOOTPATH! Not wanting to leave my bike unattended (on a road with absolutely zero people on it) I decided how bad could it be to take it along? Well I didn't ride my bike on this footpath back to the cave, but man, talk about roots and rocks and rugged terrain through those woods. I was so afraid to pop a tire or something. It's amazing my bike made it all the way through.
Okay last comment. I can now see why Tom Hanks made friends with a volleyball in the movie "Castaway". As I was taking this super long bike ride and dragging my bike with me through the woods on this trip, I realized how much I've bonded with my bike since being here on the island! I know it sounds absolutely crazy but as I was riding I started to think about Tom talking to Wilson (the volleyball) while he was alone on his island and how he began to treat it as a real person and have conversations with it just so he could feel like he was having some social interaction with something. No, I haven't begun having conversations with my bike, for all of you who are worried about me, haha. But I have thought about all the places we've gone together and the things we've seen. I used to hate bike riding, but now it's like I can't get enough of it! My bike is so darn cool and has been so good to me. As I was walking it along with me through the woods, I realized how much I was trying to protect it from getting hurt or damaged. And just having my bike there with me, surrounded by trees and unknown woods, I felt protected. Like my bike could somehow protect me if something decided to attack me, haha. My bike just makes me feel like I'm not alone, I guess is what I'm trying to say. Okay, so you can all think I'm going crazy now, but I'm not that bad, trust me.
I guess that is all for now. Other than telling you about a few of the pictures up top and why I selected them for this blog, I guess I will say, "Goodnight and Goodluck!"
Picture 1: I took this picture on the boat coming back to the island today so it's not the best. But if you click on it to enlarge it maybe you can see what I'm talking about. It was super foggy today when I got up to go off the island. On the way back, most of the fog had burned off, except at one half of the bridge and on up towards St. Ignace. It was so cool to see, it was like a huge puffy white cloud had floated down to the water and swallowed half the bridge and the bridge was coming out of the cloud. It was a little of what I picture heaven to be like :)
Picture 2: This one is just for my sisters and cousins, Colin and Devin. I just threw in this picture of the cabin because I found it on my way to the cave. It was a real life Lincoln Log Cabin! You can't see it well in the pic, unless you look closely at the right side where the logs intersect. Many a day were spent down at Grandma and Grandpa's building those Lincoln Log towns.
Picture 3: The picture with the flowers are the tulips in front of the Grand Hotel. I've been promising my mom and Shira that I'd go up there and take a picture of the tulips for a month now and I finally got it when they were blooming. Check that one off the list.
Picture 4: The airport. You read about that above. For those of you that don't want to drive..fly here.
Picture 5: Crack in the Island. It was deeper than it looks. But not so deep I'd get stuck down there forever.
Picture 6: Cave of the Woods. Bats live here.
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