Showing posts with label Door County. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Door County. Show all posts

Thursday, September 29, 2011

Curves

Apparently, this is the most photograhed place in Door County and we didn't even know it! The curvy road!


Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Lighthouses

I love lighthouses. Why? I don't know. But I do! Whenever we visit someplace that has some, we seek them out. Door County had 10 lighthouses! We didn't have time to find them all, but here are some of the ones that we did find.
Old Baileys Harbor Light

Cana Island Lighthouse

Plum Island Lighthouse

Baileys Harbor Range Lights - this is the lower range. It sits in front of the upper range.

Upper Range

Canal Station Lighthouse

Canal Station Pier Head

Monday, September 26, 2011

Sister Bay

We decided to drive all the way to the end of door county and look at the ferry that will take you to Washington Island. We weren't going over, but just wanted to check things out. The lake was extremely rough. The ferry was bobbing up and down. Glad I wasn't on it.



The drive back took us through Sister Bay. They have a fairly famous restaurant there called Al Johnsons. It's a swedish restaurant. And it has goats on the roof! What kind of a telephone call is that to the roofer? Hey, I'm having a problem with the roof. And be sure to watch out for the goats!





I was going to take a picture of the food, but I forgot! Too busy drinking icey cold soda out of metal mugs and eating bread with homemade lingonberry jelly.

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Door County - Ephraim

After leaving Milwaukee we continued on north to Door County, specifically we went to Ephraim. It was lovely. Door County is a cross between Cape Cod and Cambria, CA. Driving on their roadway is exactly like driving down 6A on the Cape. Small restaurants, lodgings and shops. No chains here! Looking out our window, across the road is the bay. Very quiet. If I didn't know better I would think I was on the Pacific Coast. This is an art museum. It's also called Grafitti House.



We had dinner one evening at the English Inn. The decor was very english castle looking and the food was really good. They had a spinach salad with warm cherry dressing drizzled on it. Yum!

They had lots and lots of log cabins on Door County.

On our last night there we went to a fish boil. These are very popular. You better have reservations or you're not getting in. For lack of better descriptive words - you stand around and watch a pot boil!








As we waited to enter the restaurant to get our food, this was the view we got to enjoy!