We made way early because a small craft advisory was called for by noon. So we got underway with 2 other loopers (Glory Days and Dockers Inn). Both of those boats pulled into Whitehall, but we pushed on to Muskegon and got there before the winds and waves came up at noon. We laid over here for 2 nights due to the weather forecast. Muskegon is a commercial boom and bust city. Essentially, the lumber that built Chicago came from here. There were 42 sawmills here. Now, this city is transforming toward tourism. We took tours of the town. It has a great beach and the water is clear—as good as any we saw in Hawaii, except we would not want to be on the beach here in the winter. The first pic shows a statue of Buster Keaton, the silent film actor who came from here. The next pic shows the Hackley and Hume homes that we toured that had some of the finest wood craftsmanship we have ever seen. Then a pic of a picture of Pigeon Hill, a huge sand dune, where the passenger pigeons once inhabited until they became extinct. I cannot take a pic of Pigeon Hill now because they used it to make cement back in the 1970’s.
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