Escanaba in Da Moonlight

Sorry no Sunday meal this week and there won't be one next week either. And the Sunday after that I am hoping to make a trip to Sault Ste. Marie so there may not be one then either but stayed tuned I have an idea for my next Sunday meal and it should be worth the wait.

Next Sunday is my trip back to Michigan to see all the old college buddies. Friday night I am staying in Boyne and Saturday up in Leland. I should be home Sunday night as long as nobody gets arrested.

This last weekend the wife and I decided to take a trip up to Escanaba to check it out and also watch Tommy play baseball for Berryhill. Who's Tommy? Tommy is the catcher that rolled up against the fence during the district baseball tournament in Coleman. I didn't take any pictures because my plan was to take pictures on Sunday during the championship game. The weather decided not to cooperate and it looked like rain and there was a lot of lightning in the air so we went home before the championship game. Berryhill won the game and Tommy hit a homerun plus two doubles in the game. The game I watched on Saturday Tommy also hit a homerun. Tommy had a good weekend.

I have always wondered what was in Escanaba and I found out, not a hell of a lot. They have not done much if any renovation to their downtown area like a lot of other cities have done. Most of Escanaba is what you see when you drive through on US 2. I think the town has lost so much industry over the years they just don't have the money or resources to keep their infrastructure up. It's to bad because that is a nice area of the UP.

But the one thing they do have is one of the nicest city parks I have ever seen. The name of the park is Ludington Park and sits on the banks of Lake Michigan. It is a beautiful park with 5 miles of walking and biking trials.

It sits on the western shore of Little Bay De Noc which is home to some of the best if not the best walleye fishing in the United States. That is rain off in the distance and we did see lightning way off in the distance too.

The shores of Lake Michigan in this area are mostly rocky but there is a sandy swimming beach here too.

There is a yacht club or what I would call a marina.

They have a nice little fountain, playgrounds for the kiddies, fishing, picnic areas, tennis courts, and and band shell for concerts.

There are several nice flower beds planted around the park.

The main attraction of the park is Sand Point Lighthouse. Probably the smallest lighthouse I have ever seen.

All in all a great park to spend some time in if you are driving through Escanaba.

What is it?

If you guessed the schooner Lettie Copper you would be right. It was built in 1876 in Manitowoc Wisconsin and was used to haul lumber on the great lakes. It sank off the coast of Wisconsin during a storm in 1894. It was carrying 230,000 board feet of lumber when it sank. In the foreground of the picture is the device for lifting and lowering the anchor for the boat.

Here is this weeks "What is It?"

Don't let the time of the season this picture was taken fool you.