After the show of custom fashions, meeting a woman who purveys custom bees who loves the islands of the Erie Archipelago, but has not made landfall on one.

Dear CK:

 

Imagining the Pelee Island Ferry is a good time while one runs a test batch of programs. Soaring over Lake Erie is a cool way to go, and a forty-minute flight leaves Windor's airport and it's inexpensive for a plane flight, as flights go, about fifty dollars round trip. Jump on it now for flights are flown only until the ferries run, April 1st. A short flight with dinner from Parry Sound to an island restaurant in Georgian Bay, landing on floats, is three times as much. Ferries are starting for season April 1. Lake crossings are available from Leamington to Pelee Island to Sandusky  by April 29th, Friday and Sundays, more days to come June 24th. If you're lucky, you take the big canoe, M.V. Jiimaan. If you're adventurous, you might wind up on the M.V. Pelee Island which is cute, meaning small. I am happy to help along a business traveler who wishes to travel by non-traditional modes of transport. It's fun to stand on deck and watch cormorants zip by in single threads of flight or strike up conversations on the rear deck. I once talked with a 90 year old man, grandson of an original settler.  

 

Fly to Henry's for a Pickerel Dinner, Frying Pan Island, 160 bucks Canadian, plus the PST!

http://georgianbayairways.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18&Itemid=32

 

Fly to Pelee and go to the Tin Goose for Dinner? 50 Round Trip, and who cares if dinner isn't included? Longer flight too!

http://www.ontarioferries.com/jii/english/air_service.html

 

M.V. Jiimaan is like an ocean cruiser. The Islander is kinda like a surf board:

http://www.ontarioferries.com/jii/english/schedule_fares.html#fares

 

Some people go out to Pelee just to escape boyfriends, flee urban confusion and write books. I met Jane at her book reading at the Pelee Island Winery Pavilion:

http://www.janechristmas.ca/writing.html

 

There's a museum of two or three rooms:

http://www.peleeislandmuseum.ca/

 

Some cool peeps at the art museum:

http://www.pelee.org/i?page=artworks&sid=661251590396RU

 

The Pelee Island Winery has a grand pavilion among the grape vines, ready to serve you wine May 21st. It's pretty good wine and cheap by the bottle. You can drink it in a wine barrel with a friend or as many as five friends.

http://www.peleeisland.com/

 

Confirming if Tin Goose Inn is opening or not requires a reporter. Bring over some fancy vittles in a picnic basket, just in case.

I think these guys in Kingsville own it.

http://www.jacksdining.com/

 

Dang, I wish I had looked all of this up Sunday because I was in Detroit then and a flight out to Pelee would have been great! Nice meeting the whole fashionable family Thursday nights at the Grand.

 

Wilbo