Sunrise in Mackinac Island

This is the Part 2 (also Day 2) of our recent trip to Mackinac Island. After having dining in a warm and cosy restaurant along main street, we finally decided to call it a day and start heading back to Mission Point Resort (this is a hotel I will not recommend staying in!). We were really struggling to fall asleep given the thin walls & blabbering hotel guests.

Vaguely, it was a night of toss and turn... at around 6am, we decided that we would brave the cold and head out to get some photos of the sunrise. It seem logical ... we were staying in a resort minutes away from the beachfront. Well, actually it was a big struggle - first, we were still sleep deprived... then, it was extremely cold outside I remember checking Yahoo! Weather and it was around 35 degree Fahrenheit (that's like close to zero degree celcius)!!

After much struggle, we decided to head out... nothing ventured nothing gained.

(Photo of sunrise taken at the mini-golf course on Mackinac Island)

We first stopped at a mini-golf course near the resort, there was no one around at this hour, and we had a blast taking photos of the manicured landscape in the mini-golf course. The sun in the background was glowing red, orange and yellow reminding us that the sun will be up any minute ... we decided that we should head out towards the beach for more shots.



Interestingly, we met another couple taking photos of the sunrise when we reached the beach... what a surprise! Thankfully, we were not the only ones crazy enough to take photos in this cold weather. They looked a lot more well prepared then us! After a quick "hello!", we wasted no time to find good spots and started a "golden" hour of "clicking". By the time we were done, we knew we have some nice photos to bring home... *satisfied*!



(Here's another shot we took in the early morning - the colors of Fall in full view!)