Old Club Freighter LbNA #49745
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Add Location| Owner: | Jack Craft  |
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| Plant date: | Aug 9, 2009 |
| Location: | Harsens Island |
| City: | Clay |
| County: | St. Clair |
| State: | Michigan |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Found by: | Skunkman Trek |
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| Last found: | Dec 28, 2014 |
| Status: | FFFOFF |
| Last edited: | Aug 9, 2009 |
From Algonac, follow M-29 (also called Dyke Road or Point Tremble Road) to Ferry Dock Road. Board the ferry to cross the North Channel. During the summer the ferry runs continuously and round trip passage on the ferry is $7 (as of 2009) but pedestrians and bicycles are free. Make the most of this hunt by planning to spend the day and enjoy Harsens Island. Visitors are drawn to the Island to soak up the beauty of the freshwater deltas and to marvel at the huge international freighters.
We used to take the steamship Tashmoo from Detroit to our cottage on Harsens Island but now that Jack has that confounded motor car we make the drive and take the ferry over. The only thing more unnatural than a motor car is a floating motor car. Don’t like it one bit… but our ferry has docked and Jack starts up the car with a cough and a chug. We motor off the ferry and turn left onto North Channel Drive. We follow the outskirts of the park to the right. We call this Columbine Street, but I suppose you folks would call it M-154. Columbine merges with La Croix and shortly thereafter you will turn right onto South Channel Drive.)
I so love South Channel Drive. It’s lined with quaint summer bungalows and some grand older homes. Back in the day when we’d take the Tashmoo to the Island we spend our days along this beach and our evenings dancing at the Tashmoo Pavilion. No dancing at the Pavilion these days since it’s been turned into a marina.
Continue on South Channel Drive. There will be a quick jog to the right and then left – this stretch of South Channel Drive becomes again what you’d call M-154. Drive until you come to a round-about at Muskamoot Bay. You can’t park on the circle – too many young folk like to gather at the circle and cause a commotion on weekends. Not like in our day when young men and young ladies new how to carry on properly. So go around the circle and then park along the road side. Walk back towards the circle and notice that the road continues beyond. That leads directly to our lovely summer house at The Old Club. Our family has been returning to The Old Club each summer for almost 50 years. But see the gated entrance! That means private and, well, going through that gate uninvited just wouldn’t be proper. So this is where we’ll leave you now. But don’t fret -- the freighter that you’re looking for is close by. As you stand before the gates to the Old Club and look to your right. Look around the base of the nearest trees. There, buried under block you should find the freighter you search.
After finding your freighter head back out M-154 and consider stopping by the Riverside Grocery (7650 South Channel) for an ice cream cone. While you’re there ask a local about the origin of the name Lug Island, which is across the canal from the market.
Or if it’s later in the day plan on dinner at the Schoolhouse Grille (2669 Columbine Rd.) lot’s of great photos from the early years.
About Harsens Island:
Harsen's Island is situated in the St. Clair River. It is named for Jacob Harsen who bought the island from Chippewa Indians in 1797. The St. Clair River divides the U.S. and Canada, and links the upper and lower Great Lakes. It is one of the world's great marine highways. In the 1700s canoes used this waterway to trade furs. Today the river is still used to transport iron ore, copper, grain and other goods.
We used to take the steamship Tashmoo from Detroit to our cottage on Harsens Island but now that Jack has that confounded motor car we make the drive and take the ferry over. The only thing more unnatural than a motor car is a floating motor car. Don’t like it one bit… but our ferry has docked and Jack starts up the car with a cough and a chug. We motor off the ferry and turn left onto North Channel Drive. We follow the outskirts of the park to the right. We call this Columbine Street, but I suppose you folks would call it M-154. Columbine merges with La Croix and shortly thereafter you will turn right onto South Channel Drive.)
I so love South Channel Drive. It’s lined with quaint summer bungalows and some grand older homes. Back in the day when we’d take the Tashmoo to the Island we spend our days along this beach and our evenings dancing at the Tashmoo Pavilion. No dancing at the Pavilion these days since it’s been turned into a marina.
Continue on South Channel Drive. There will be a quick jog to the right and then left – this stretch of South Channel Drive becomes again what you’d call M-154. Drive until you come to a round-about at Muskamoot Bay. You can’t park on the circle – too many young folk like to gather at the circle and cause a commotion on weekends. Not like in our day when young men and young ladies new how to carry on properly. So go around the circle and then park along the road side. Walk back towards the circle and notice that the road continues beyond. That leads directly to our lovely summer house at The Old Club. Our family has been returning to The Old Club each summer for almost 50 years. But see the gated entrance! That means private and, well, going through that gate uninvited just wouldn’t be proper. So this is where we’ll leave you now. But don’t fret -- the freighter that you’re looking for is close by. As you stand before the gates to the Old Club and look to your right. Look around the base of the nearest trees. There, buried under block you should find the freighter you search.
After finding your freighter head back out M-154 and consider stopping by the Riverside Grocery (7650 South Channel) for an ice cream cone. While you’re there ask a local about the origin of the name Lug Island, which is across the canal from the market.
Or if it’s later in the day plan on dinner at the Schoolhouse Grille (2669 Columbine Rd.) lot’s of great photos from the early years.
About Harsens Island:
Harsen's Island is situated in the St. Clair River. It is named for Jacob Harsen who bought the island from Chippewa Indians in 1797. The St. Clair River divides the U.S. and Canada, and links the upper and lower Great Lakes. It is one of the world's great marine highways. In the 1700s canoes used this waterway to trade furs. Today the river is still used to transport iron ore, copper, grain and other goods.