Before leaving our site in Bay City we took a nice walk along the boat lunch that empties into Lake Michigan. To get to our next site, St. Ignace, we had to cross the impressive Mackinac Bridge, a suspension bridge spanning the Straits of Mackinac and connecting the Upper and Lower peninsulas of Michigan. It was opened in 1957 after three years of construction and, at 26,372 feet (5m/8km), was the longest suspension bridge in the world at the time. Now, 65 years later, it still remains the longest suspension bridge between anchorages in the Western Hemisphere.
