Late afternoon on August 5th Scott and I decided to drive over on the west side of Door County and see what was there. We drove through Egg Harbor, where we bought some fun foodie things previously on other days and headed north to Fish Creek. What a cute place both of these towns were. We stopped and parked over next to Fish Creek Beach.
Here's a map of Fish Creek and the downtown area. Fish Creek Beach is the yellow area on this map below.
After leaving Fish Creek Beach, we walked down the Main Street toward the downtown taking photos of cute shops and flowers. Here's a sampling of what we saw. There were a lot of rental cottages bumped up against the bay and pier. The Edgewater Cottages that have been in Fish Creek since 1945!
Flowers adorned nearly every establishment, cottage and home on Main Street.
Soon, we came to a house that had the coolest sprinklers in front of it. Half of the house was a Jewelry, Art Gallery, Unique Gifts store and the other half was Trails End Clothing store. This round one was my favorite. I was surprised that such a cute piece of garden decor could water nearly 95% of the plants in the yard!
We continued walking down Main Street and then turned right on Cedar Street walking down past the Door County Gifts and Touch of the World Gifts where they sold all kind of clothes, trinkets and yard signs. After that we turned left on Maple Street and saw many homes that had been bought up and turned into bed and breakfasts. One of them had this cute bunny in it's yard! We then turned left on Cottage Row (appropriately named) and headed back up to Main Street passing Hidden Harbor Condos which is community with a pool and tennis courts! Very nice!
Then we turned left and were back on Main Street taking in all the cute shops. Soon, we arrived at the Founders Square area where Pelletier's Fish Boil was located among about a dozen cute shops! The blooms on the hydrangeas were so big! They were larger than my head! I remember friend's telling me that Pelletier's was a must-stop place for a fish boil so we went over there and put on name on the reservation list for the next night for the 5:30 p.m. boil.
After continuing down Main Street we came to the Alexander Noble House which is now a museum of 19th century funeral customs, which I thought we be so cool to see, but it was closed and not open during a time we would be there. Pooh!
We continued to walk more and passed more cute shops with more gorgeous flowers.
And, then we crossed by over to the Fish Creek Beach Park and walked down to the water and took a few photos of the harbor.
The next day, we returned to Fish Creek for our fish boil at 5 p.m. as requested and watched in amazement the whole process of the boil. They have a boil every 30 minutes, so they have everything time out to perfection. When you sign up for the boil you tell them how much you are going to eat and they plan how many can attend so there is enough fish and the right amount of fish for each boil. Naturally, I had the boil and Scott had chicken since he hates fish.
Here's a movie of the process of the boil.
And, here's our yummy dinner.
Pelletier's is located in Founders Square and back behind the restaurant where the boil happens, the Asa and Eliza Thorp Cabin is also located. Asa Thorp was the first resident of Fish Cree. Here's the history of Fish Creek if you're interested. Oliver Perry Graham (who staked the first claim in Sturgeon Bay and then moved to Egg Harbor) told Asa Thorp about the area and Graham is related to our Bacons! Matter of fact, there's no doubt that Thorp and Grandpa Bacon knew each other since they were both coopers and lived in the same township.
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| Asa T. Thorp |
After dinner, we saw a few more shops in Founders Square. At one of the shops I really LOVED this picture of the Great Lakes in 3D format. They also had some great local and nautical items as well.
Also, the Fish Creek Genealogy Building at Noble Square (behind the Noble house) was open so naturally, I stepped inside to see if they had any info on Grandpa Bacon. In the 1850 Census, he and the family lived in Gibraltar Township...this included Fish Creek, Sister Bay, North Point, and Bailey's Harbor.
What a darling town! We could easily live in a little town like this! When we got back to the truck after dinner, we found a leaf on the windshield. We had been noticing fall starting and so it was fitting to find one of the first leaves on the truck.
After dinner, it was still light outsides, so we decided to drive up to Northport - the farthest point on the Door county peninsula. Northport is where you catch the ferry to go to Washington Island. We weren't able to go to Washington Island this trip, but we'll be game next time.
We were fortunate that we were the only people there until just about the time we left. We were able to see a pretty sunset and walk out to the edge of the dock and over to the east rock barrier. Even the shrubs on the beach were turning color and the sky and clouds were beautiful with lots of beautiful color. The weather was getting stormy making photos even nicer. The only bad thing was that we got some pretty bad sandflies! Not pleasant. When we left Northport, we headed toward Gills Rock and saw THE MOST stunning sunset, but it came and left so fast we couldn't get a photo but it was stunning!
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