Rawley Point and Mariner Bike Trails

 As you know from previous posts, John and I took our third annual bike ride on the Rawley Point/Mariner trails this past Saturday.

The Rawley Point trail starts in Two Rivers and goes into Point Beach State park.

The weather was predicted to be in the high eighties, but when we started our ride, it was considerably cooler than that.  Luckily I had grabbed a jacket at the last minute.

When we first started riding my legs and fingers were cold, but it did not take long to warm up. 

 Here's the little cabin where we always like stop for a photo.

I love this trail because it has lots of ups and downs as well as twists and turns.

There are beautiful trees all along the path.

 And of course, the reward at the end is Lake Michigan which is always beautiful.

The sun was shining brightly by this time and the temps were rising.

It was actually near perfect weather for a bike trail.

 Lake Michigan looks so much like St. George.

In a pinch, it serves as a nice substitute.

 We bought lunch of pizza and diet cokes at the concession stand

Not the best pizza, but it filled us up.

We had a gorgeous view from our picnic site, too.

 After lunch we rode to the lighthouse just like we always do. 

Yep, it was still there, unchanged from last year.

 By the time we returned to our starting point at the park, we had our jackets off.

We had ridden about 16 miles on our round trip to the beach.  We decided to add a few more miles on to our ride by heading over to the Mariner trail which goes from Two Rivers to Manitowac.

 Here is John in front of the place where the first ice cream sundae in Wisconsin was served.

 Of course, I had to take this photo in honor of my dad who, as you know by now if you follow my blog, never passed up an opportunity to look through one of these viewing things.

 This is about midway to Manitowac.  We opted not to go all the way, but instead rode four miles out and four miles back on this trail, making our total trip about 26 miles.

After our ride, we headed over to Courtney and Paul's in Oshkosh, we fondly refer to their home as the Van Auken B and B.  They were camping, so we had the place to ourselves.

We went out that night for dinner and few beers.

It was a great holiday weekend.