Michigan’s Awesome Thumb

Posted by Greybeard on Aug 17th, 2010 in Fishing, Local, News and weather | Comments Off

It’s on the other side of Saginaw Bay for us (very nearly Lake Huron),  about an hour and 45 minute boat ride,  but we had a great time over at Port Austin last weekend.   We didn’t do any fishing,  but we did use our host’s motorized rubber dingy to explore the coast line, north and south of the port.   I found this site with lots of winter pictures of the sights.

And I found this site with summer photos,  which looks a lot more like what we saw.

I’d like to thank these folks for making their photos public.   We got quite a few off of a cell phone,  but as yet,  I havent gotten access to them.   My lasting impression of the  the area was,  “I never knew there was that much rock in Michigan.   Rock walls,  rock beaches,  and ROCK bottoms on the lake.

As noted,  we didn’t fish this trip,  but here’s a fishing report for the Port Austin area from Muck Boy.

And finally a food report.  Friday night we stopped in at “The Bank”,  a noted upscale resturant in the town.  It was hot and we needed a place to cool off.   After browsing their menu,  we decide to cool off while having a beer,  rather than one of their exorbitantly priced meals.  The next night,  we decided to try the Sportsmens Bar,  right in the middle of town.    Black Angus burgers served with fries and cole slaw,  washed down with a draft Killians.   Now this is a meal I can recommend,  very good,  and amazingly,  the cost of two, of the half pound burger meals, including a draft for me, and bloody Mary for the wife,  was less that the price of the lowest cost meal on the menu at “The Bank”.   Kudo’s to the Sportsmans Bar and Grill in Port Austin!



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