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Late yesterday the temperature fell and the winds started to blow from the NW with scattered rain showers and those conditions were still in place when we got up this morning. It was an easy decision to revise our plans to go to Detour Village instead of anchoring at Harbor Island.  We departed Drummond at 0900, and I led Windchaser out to the main shipping channel where they headed south to Lake Huron and then west to Mackinac Island while we headed west for our brief trip across DeTour Passage to Detour Village. We pulled into the fuel dock at the marina and took on 17.6 gal. of diesel in my main tank and 10 gal. into two jerry cans.  As we were entering our assigned slip a local boater, trying to be helpful,  took my starboard  bow line, but instead of taking it down to a cleat on the dock, he jerked it upward snapping the lens off my starboard navigation light. This is the third time the lens has been lost. Once in Mentor when another helpful hand pulled the bow into a dock post  and again in 2005 in Sault Ste. Marie when a dock boy at the fuel dock pulled the bow into a post. The marina has a long pole with a rake at the end for retrieving items on the bottom, but our lengthy efforts to retrieve the lens were to no avail. The cloudy skies and rippled water surface from the wind did not help.  So we gave up, put our bikes down for the first time this trip and went to town.  Don and I visited the sporting goods shop to add some fishing lures  to our tackle box, and I bought a fishing net for use in Lake Superior as well as to give us another shot at retrieving the lens. We discovered the one well renowned local restaurant has closed. I guess another victim of the recession. After a quick stop at the grocery store to pick up a few items, we pedaled back to the boat to await a break in the clouds for better visibility in our hunt for the lens. In the early evening we had a brief period of sunshine, but no luck in lens fishing. I guess I will have to have Will bring me a new one at Isle Royale. We plan to leave tomorrow morning  for Sault Ste. Marie after one last try for the lens. FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE GETTING AUTOMATIC UPDATES ON MY POSTS VIA EMAIL, YOU SHOULD OCCASIONALLY  CHECK THE BLOG  ON THE WEBSITE FOR THE PICTURES WE ARE POSTING.  YESTERDAY WE UPLOADED 25 NEW PICTURES WHICH WILL SHOULD HAVE POSTED FOR YOUR VIEWING BY TOMORROW. ENJOY!