_ after the fear and near-death experiences of cedar point, we decided we need something more summery and relaxing, so we drove through scenic downtown sandusky and headed for the harbor at catawba island, where we caught the hourly ferry to put-in-bay.
_ put-in-bay is a small village on an island 15 miles due north-west of sandusky. you can see mainland ohio on the horizon there, just over the wake of the ferry.
_ the island itself has a bunch of beautiful summer homes and hotels, but the ferry itself seemed to be full of day-trippers like ourselves.
_ we had hardly any time, so we availed ourselves of the offer of golf carts, and took a spin around.
_ everything is within striking distance via golf cart, and so a few minutes after leaving the harbor we stumbled upon this idyllic scene. CLICK ABOVE TO VIEW LARGER, and see the plume from the nuclear power plant on the far horizon.
_ as we keep repeating, no man is an island, but if you were, in fact, an island, you'd want to be one with an airport. that basically ensures that you're a great island (as long as it's not offensively large).
_ we clipped our map to the wheel of the golf cart, where ordinarily you'd keep the scorecard, and tried to stop it from being blown away.
_ heading into town via the most direct road from the ferry dock, you pass the admiral perry statue, named after the victor of the great battle of lake erie in the early 1800's. it is a symbol of the subsequent & enduring peace between the US, canada & britain. not that these people care.
_ this, as you can tell, is *the* boardwalk of put-in-bay, ohio, and a good place to get a beer while watching yachts come in and kayaks go out.
_ edging up past the town proper, we came upon perfect little vignettes of life on an island in lake erie. here we're looking across the harbor to the perry monument. the boardwalk is just out of view behind the trees on the left.
_ and if you turn to the left, this is what you see. right behind us there was a pop and son fishing, but as we were speeding past on a golf-cart, we didn't think it safe to spin around and shoot backwards. in fact, most of the pictures in this series (apart from the last batch) were taken while driving. not terribly safe, and not that great if you like your horizons level.
_ every summer destination needs a maze, and if you don't have a maze of shrubbery...
_ ...then make a maze of what appear to be portapotty doors.
_ suitable fashions for a day of pedaling.
_ though we were under massive time constraints, we knew exactly what we wanted from our trip to put-in-bay, so we parked the cart and followed a trail through the bushes...
_ ...along the beach and inland, across a dry meadow...
_ and out onto a quiet promontory.
_ where we disturbed the birds, and kept...
_ ...on...
_ ...walking.
_ our time up, we ran back to the cart and sped back to the dock.
_ and, on the return ferry, we saw another example of this summer's most common hairstyle. astute viewers will notice something wrong with this story... tell us what it is!
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