Saturday, July 23rd - Whitefish Point

 Todays adventure was a trip to Whitefish Point and Brown Fisheries Fish House in Paradise, MI. We took the scenic route next to the water, as usual.

At the Point: There were quite a few people out enjoying the sunny, breezy day.

We, and almost everyone else, finds the rocks along the shore interesting. They are smooth and most of them look like they have been flattened.

Doing a little wading.

Taking a break and enjoying the view. Lots of old washed up trees to use as benches.

We saw lots of people wading. Two preteen girls where out in the water up to their necks for minutes at a time, with lots of screaming about how cold the water was. We also saw a woman (we think it was a woman) swimming parallel to the shore, not to far off the shoreline. She was wearing some type of wet suit, or dry suit. 

There is a shipwreck museum at the Point but we didn't go in, we have been here quite a few times.

Then it was on to Brown Fisheries Fish House in Paradise. They have GREAT whitefish. The place isn't going to win any awards for its ambiance. We arrived at 1:30 and didn't have to wait for a table. The last time we were there people were lined up outside waiting to get in. Waiting must be a normal occurrence because I saw a sign that said due to occupancy restrictions people waiting for a table had to wait outside.

On our way back we stopped at one of the scenic outlooks. I chose poorly. We should have stopped at one of the ones further north, they are closer to the water.

Then it was back home with time for a nice nap before doing some research on state by state changes in the number of people employed since COVID hit. 

Its interesting to see that even though our population had grown by over 4 million since Feb 2020, and even though we still have 775,000 fewer people working than before COVID, some states have done far better than others. Texas has over 400,000 more people working than pre-COVID. Florida had 270,000 more, Georgia 152,000 more & North Carolina 140,000 more. At the other end of the list New York has 400,000 fewer people working the pre-COVID, Pennsylvania 160,000 fewer, Ohio 140,000 fewer, Michigan 136,000 fewer, Illinois 101.000 fewer & California 97,000 fewer.

God is good. I  pray that He blesses you and yours.