On our way home we went on an access road to Tahquamenon Bay. We had to go down a dirt road. It was so beautiful. We decided to go kayaking. We went down the bay and headed towards Emerson Island where there was a logging mill many years ago. You can see the wooded posts still in the water. The water was not very deep. We continued on down the bay. It was so quiet and peaceful. We decided to turn around and head back and the wind came up. It was very difficult to paddle back but we had to keep going. The water was so shallow that at one point I had to get out of the kayak and push it into deeper water. I was so exhausted by the time we got back to the truck. We were starting to load the kayaks when a gentleman, Mike, came to let his dog swim in the bay. We talked with him for awhile. He gave us some great insight into the life on the upper peninsula in the winter. His home is 7 miles from the main road and in the winter they have to take snowmobiles to the main road in order to get to work. His daughter takes the snowmobile to the main road and then gets the school bus. He belongs to a snowmobile club and they groom about 110 miles of snowmobile routes in the winter.
Tahquamenon Falls State Park has its own brewery and it is opened all year long. His snowmobiles club goes there quite often to meet other clubs. In the winter he says you can see about 30 cars and 300 snowmobiles at the restaurant.
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