On the Shores of Lake Erie: East Harbor State Park and Kelleys Island

If one sees a bald eagle and doesn't get a photo, was it there? 

We camped for two nights at East Harbor State Park, OH, which is on a peninsula on the shore of Lake Erie (see red dot above), and although we didn’t get a picture of the bald eagle, we managed to get quite a few photos of the scenery.

   

East Harbor Park. 

Taking a work call

Cedar Point Amusement Park, off in the distance, extreme telephoto 

The second day, we took a ferry to Kellys Island (see blue dot on map at top), 4 miles offshore, and biked around there.

There is a lot of construction happening on Kellys Island, based on the trucks which were on the ferry with us. In case the ferry sank, my plan was to build a raft out of all this lumber.

The great lakes were gouged out of bedrock by glaciers during the ice ages. In a few places offshore in Lake Erie, the limestone bedrock was harder than the rest. The glaciers scraped over these areas leaving behind what are now islands, one of which is Kellys. Another is Pelee Island, 8 miles further north, which is in Canada. 
Verizon thought Kellys was also in Canada. 

I mentioned gouging by the glaciers. These were gouges in the rock in Glacier Grooves Natural Natural Landmark. Due to their large size and ease of accessibility, these are the most famous glacial grooves in the world.

Tons and tons of limestone were quarried on Kellys Island. These are some remains of that industry.

And one of the old quarries

Random views on Kellys

A summary

Marblehead lighthouse back on the mainland