Wednesday, August 19, 2020 - Visiting Holland, MI and Sunset at South Haven, MI
Wednesday, August 19
We were looking forward to walk to the pedestrian beach this morning. It was less than half a mile down a street with beautifully landscaped yards. (Remember you can click on any picture to enlarge it.)
Once we arrived we were not sure what to do. There were signs on either side of the walkway that said private beach. There was only a 2 to 4 foot deep strip of beach in front of us. We were perplexed. Surely the homeonwers wouldn't say this is a private beach and the county have it open to pedestrians for such a short amount of shore. We were about to leave and go back when Dean noticed signs that indicated we could not set up anything on private property but we could walk along the beach.
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I love pictures of wood on, or buried in the sand
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| See the signs? that's the width of the beach area, but you could walk along the beach as far as you could go. We walked until we reached an area that would have required us climbing over some debris, so we turned around and retraced our steps. |
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The steps from the pedestiran beach back to the roadway.
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More flowers and homes
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Cute RV in someone's backyard - maybe it was for their visitors?
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| Wooden bridge coming and going from the RV Park |
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Bentley
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After we returned from our walk, we were soon heading out again. This time we headed north to Holland, MI.
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Beautiful flowers in downtown park
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| Waterfront in park downtown |
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Hope College is located just off of Main Street in downtown Holland. There are many shops and restaurants on Main Street, along with several sculptures. The campus there is quite large and covers several city blocks.
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Nice water playpad for children. Several were having fun!
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Downtown Holland - Michigan believes in flowers in their downtown areas - it is beautiful.
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We loved this sculpture of these children with hands over their heart, as one of them raises the flag.
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From downtown we moved to the beach area to take pictures of the The Big Red Lighthouse. For those of you that do not know, I love lighthouses and my husband is such a good guy to haul me around the country looking at them!
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| I'm not sure what this was but it was interesting to see and watch, as it came in from Lake Michigan. |
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The Beach - it looks like a lot of people but they are not as close to each other as the picture portrays. We walked across the sand..while looking toward the beach there is much more distance between them than it appears here.
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We were looking for Tunnel Park, when I spied this old water tower.
As we drove by a metal recycling area we noticed these neat characters out front along the road
A sculpture called "The Rising Sun"
We drove to Windmill Island & Gardens with the intent to visit. We were both hungry and when we discovered they did not have a restaurant we decided to bypass it.
I managed to get a picture of the windmill through these trees. |
Windmill
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One last sculpture we saw in the waterfront park.
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On our way back to South Haven, we passed through Saugatuck, MI. We planned to eat there but it was absolutely packed with people. We could not have found a place to park our truck if we had wanted to ---- and we didn't want to after we saw the crowd. It was after 2, with stores and restaurants full. We moved a few miles down the road to Douglas where we found The Farmhouse Deli & Pantry. We ordered a turkey/cheese/bacon sandwich and split it. We took it to the truck and ate it before making the last leg of the drive back to South Haven.
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