South Haven is a old commercial fishing town with an old harbor village along the south waterfront. Yesterday evening we walked this area before going to sleep. In the morning we awoke to a wet environment. Not from rain but from dew! Tom wipes the windows.
We would have loved to stay here a few more days as everyone was so friendly and full of life. When we passed outside of the breakwater, we found a flat lake. Not a breath of breeze. We motored the 23 miles to Benton Harbor on the St. Joseph River.
When we entered the channel into Benton Harbor, we again saw a black metal structure running along the dock to the lighthouse. The first time we saw this structure, we had no idea what it was. This time we decided that it was a raised walkway.
The municipal marina was the first one on the port side reached through a narrow rock walled entrance. We almost missed it except that we could not get under the adjacent railroad bridge. We decided to stop here to visit Wolf's Marine, Inc., the largest marine store in the midwest. Tomorrow we will use their free shuttle but today we worked on the generator which has be sporatically working. Then Tom found some water in the bilges and Debbie got out a sponge. We walked a little in the neighbor. Tom mounted the TV satellite disk on the rear mast holder. We watched the last day of the Ryder Cup in the luxury of our "living room."
