2019 RV/Boat

Same day second post.  Don't expect that to happen too often but it's early in the season and the sky finally dried out enough to have a little fun.

After early morning fog, a bit of drizzle and chilly temperatures the clouds parted here in Mackinaw City.

I puttered all day and finished setting up the boat.  It's all ready to go.

The pleasant weather was apparently the ticket to set off the midge fly hatch.

That's not smoke over that ferry boat.

It's a zillion midge flies.

 

This is the critter.

It resembles a mosquito but is harmless other than getting on everything.  Fortunately, the hatch occurred over water for the most part and didn't affect me here in the marina very much.  The story from the locals here is that the hatch won't be as severe as it was last year.  Hope they're right.  For all the bugs that appeared this afternoon, they've disappeared just as quickly.

With the boat ready, the temperature rising and the wind calm, I decided to go take a lap around the bridge this evening.

There's something about being under the bridge that is just cool.

It's a view a lot of people never see.

I was dragging a few lines while on the tour and actually caught a lake trout.  The first fish of the year.

I released it.  It was crazy fat.  I'm guessing full of eggs maybe?  Anyway, it was a nice bonus to a pleasant 90 minute outing.

The lake was just so perfect.

It's not that calm too often.  

Not sure how this stacks up to other locations around the lake, but I took a walk out to the gas dock this afternoon and noticed the price of fuel here this year.

That's 89 octane pure gas.  A much better price than the $5.00 per gallon that it was when I put the boat away last fall.  

So that's it.  The fun begins.