Sugar Passage
We left Bay City this morning headed east with a heavy fog hanging
over Lake Huron. This is an area of Michigan referred to as the “Thumb”, and is
new to us.
While driving across the thumb to our first destination we
happened upon The Michigan Sugar processing plant in Sebewaing. Here, sugar beets are processed into granulated,
powered and liquid, and brown sugars with one billion pounds produced annually.
There are one thousand farmers growing beets on 160,000 acres for Michigan
Sugar. As with the corn from an earlier post, there were fields upon fields of
beets, and large dump trucks hauling them to the plant.
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| Michigan Sugar |
We also ran across this nice old bank building in the same
town. “The Bank” is now a bar!
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| The Bank
Our first scheduled stop, after wrong directions from the
GPS, was Pointe Aux Barques Lighthouse in Port Hope. Built in 1857, the tower
stands 89 feet tall. The museum housed in the attached keeper’s house has an
extensive collection of artifacts on display…one of the best we have seen.
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| Pointe Aux Barques Lighthouse |
Next was the village of Port Sanilac to visit the Port
Sanilac Lighthouse. Built in 1886, the tower is 59 feet tall and is attached to
a beautiful brick keeper’s house. The property is now listed “For Sale” for a
mere $999,800.00! Where is that winning lottery ticket??!!
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| Port Sanilac Lighthouse |
Windmills are a common sight along route M-25 in the thumb.
We have now finished our tour of the thumb and are spending
two days in Port Huron.
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