Now that we were back to the core team, and able to cram into a compact, we rented a vehicle and headed out for a day trip. We sent the chicks to get the car, as they are usually much better able to negotiate prices and upgrades, and were none too surprised to see them pull up in a shiny, black, seven seater SUV, which we didn’t even have to jam into, everybody got a seat including the kids, what a treat! We head west out of Sandusky and drove to the peninsula of Marblehead. We did a full circuit of the peninsula, seeing nothing much of interest, other than the Marblehead lighthouse, which is sort of a Lake Erie relic. We weren’t able to go into the lighthouse as there was a wedding ceremony being performed there, for a gargantuan bride in what we all agreed was the most hideous wedding dresses ever manufactured on planet earth. Her bridesmaids must have really loved her, or perhaps they were all part of the same clown troupe, it’s really anybody’s guess.
We then rolled on to Port Clinton, which is a small town
with a lot of marinas, and the take off point for the Jet Express ferry to
Put-in-Bay, resulting in hundreds of macho, muscled, tattooed dudes with vodka
sipping bikinied bombshells on their arms, waiting for the next ferry. We skirted around that chaos and instead
found this cool little lakeside restaurant called Dock’s Beach House, whose
food was acceptable, but venue was amazing as they were located right next to
their own private beach and supplied a live band playing on the giant patio
overlooking the crashing waves of the lake.
We were treated to a very talented folk band who sang their hearts out
while we flooded our livers and filled our gullets, a lovely afternoon indeed.
After this we did a short walk into the historic downtown, which
really didn’t have too much to offer, then hopped in the SUV and cruised back
to the boats, quite happy that we have finally seen the area, after talking
about doing it on previous trips.
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