Travel to Fish Creek Wisconsin

Well we have been on our adventure for 11 days and have made it from Waukegan to Door Country. We arrived at Fish Creek yesterday. Our travels with the weather conditions has been much slower than expected, however we are all managing it well.

When we left Waukegan we traveled for 3 hours to Racine. It was our intention to make it to Milwaukee or Port Washington but the fog was so thick it was not fun and the weather conditions seemed to be getting worse and not better. We ended up staying in Racine for 5 days until we could get out. We experienced heavy fog for 2 days, then tornado warnings, heavy winds and rain for the next 2 days. Over 9 inches of rain fell. However Racine was a great harbor to be delayed in. Good eating - inboard and off board - and a lot of very friendly people.

We had a lot of time for reading, resting, relaxing and eating....

We then left Racine and traveled to Sheboygan. Sheboygan was a beautiful harbor also. The following morning was sunny and seas were calm so we left Sheboygan and traveled to the small town of Kewaunee. The harbor was quaint and the homes were beautiful. Bill even took the opportunity to try salmon fishing before we entered the Kewaunee Harbor. We fished for a couple of hours but did not have any luck. So much for plans for a salmon dinner... oh too bad.... we had to go out to eat!!!!

We got up early and left Kewaunee, hoping to out run winds and storms and make it to Sturgeon Bay while waters were fairly calm. What a surprise.... Lake Michigan had 3-5 footers out of the south west. It was pretty rough and we were bounced around quite a bit. The short trip of 20 miles seemed to take much longer than 3 hours. We all were happy to stay in Sturgeon Bay for a couple of days and wait out the bad weather predicted for Thursday. The weather forecast was right - we again had tornado warnings, severe thunderstorms, heavy rain and winds.... Thank goodness the worst weather was a little south of us. Kenauwee had it a lot worse than we did. It was probably good that we left when we did. While in Surgeon Bay, Bill and George tried perch fishing.... got a couple of small ones but the pending storm made fishing a little challenging.

Yesterday morning we woke up to a beautiful morning. Finally we got sunshine and could wear shorts and tee shirts and put long underwear and sheatshirts away.... hopefully for longer than 2 days. The trip across Strugeon Bay was smooth and beautiful. We arrived in Fish Creek around noon. It is just a beautiful town.... we have had perch and ice cream and experienced real Door County Cheery Pie for breakfast. The Wisconsin meat market brats are fantastic and the shops and quaint and full of all kinds of treasures. Ginny Clark and I have controlled ourselves in shopping... mostly looking. Tonight we have plans to experience the famous Door County Fish Boil for dinner.

It is our plan to leave Fish Creek in the morning and travel to Washington Island. We will spend the night in Detroit Harbor waiting for good waters on Lake Michigan to cross to Leland, MI. If the waters are good we will cross on Monday. Bill has been talking with all the fishermen and has plans to fish for Walleye on our way to Washington Island. I may even talk him into a visit to Sister Bay on our way.

The trip has been good so far and we are learning to be patient waiting for good traveling weather... More to come once we get to Leland, MI....