So! A couple of weeks ago my parents rented a cottage on Sandusky Bay. We went up for a night to spend the last official weekend of summer doing things like this:
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| Fire on Lake Erie. YES. |
And hanging out here:
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Private beach and boat on a bay? YES.
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The morning that we were there, though was a bit too cold to swim. So we took the kids out on a boat ride in Sandusky Bay (the cottage had a dock spitting distance from it). The pictures turned out pretty neat.
This was actually supposed to be a Wordless Wed post last week but then everyone got sick with Hand Foot and Mouth Disease. It's going around like wildfire right now. And of course we all got it the first real week of Kindergarten. But if we can survive that the rest of the year will be easy, right? SIGH. Anyways here's some pretty pictures of Sandusky Bay!
First up we went and checked out Bay Point. My grandmother had a place there when I was growing up so I spent LOTS of time swimming on the beaches there. It looked a lot different back in the '80's though. The whole Bay side was tiny rental cottages while the entire Lake Erie side was beach. Now? Not so much:
It used to be pretty heavily forested but it looks like they cut most of that down:
I have decidedly mixed feelings. The Lake Erie side still has a small area of trailers (what my Grandma used to have there)
And the point part looks as wild and sand bar like as ever. We used to hike there as kids when we could. Sometimes it was accessible, sometimes the lake was high and you couldn't get through. Either way it was an adventure because the whole thing is a changing sandbar - you never knew what you were going to find:
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| The google earth view shows it - the peninsula coming down from the top is bay point. The "land" furthest into the bay is the point. |
Then we went over and checked out Cedar Point. It also looked a lot different when I was a kid. I remember when they built the Magnum (1989) and it was SO HUGE on the skyline. And before that the biggest thing we could see was the Ferris wheel. Now not so much:
Also I should mention that if you are interested in going to Cedar Point on land they are about to start their
HalloWeekends which is always a good time.
I tried to get a picture of the coaster skyline through the spray from the boat but...
Iit was tricky. Especially since I had a 3yo on my lap. I think I got a pretty decent shot, though:
I kindof have this feeling that now that school has started (the dude starts this week!) I might actually have time to blog about all of the fun things we did this summer. Stay tuned.
Disclosure: I am a Cedar Point Blogger however this is not a sponsored post. I liked the pictures from the bay and would have put them up regardless of my relationship with Cedar Point just because they are neat.
