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Put-in-Bay and Kelleys Island |
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| July 12, 2011 - The two RV Gypsies and their grandson Alex Jones went island hoping on the Jet Express, the fastest way to Put-in-Bay and Kelleys Island. It traveled at 35 knots (about 40 miles per hour). |
| Then they boarded the Jet Express to Put-in-Bay which was half the fun of getting to Put-in-Bay and Kelleys Island. They got to relax while enjoying a narrated tour of the history of the island. | |
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Below: Lee Duquette's
famous "wild man" hair-do  |
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Below: The view on the way to Put-in-Bay |
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| Below Perry's Monument: the nation's fourth tallest monument, at 352 feet, but it was under construction at the time that the two RV Gypsies visited Put-in-Bay. But there is also a Perry Monument in Presque Isle State Park in Erie, PA, which is completed but is only 101-feet tall. If you use this link, there will be a link on that page to bring you back here. | |
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| Below: The first stop was Put-in-Bay (also known as PIB). Put-in-Bay is a village located on South Bass Island in Put-in-Bay Township, Ottawa County, Ohio. Many believe that the name originates from some early maps of South Bass Island that showed the harbor being named Pudding Bay, probably because it was shaped like a pudding sack. | |
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| Put-in-Bay is a small summer resort vacation destination located on South Bass Island in Lake Erie's shallow western basin. Put in Bay has been a summer resort since the mid 1800's, thrived during the turn of the last century during the Victorian era when thousands of visitors disembarked from a half dozen different steam ships that anchored here. | |
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| Below: While waiting for the Jet Express to take passengers from Put-in-Bay to Kelleys Island, Alex and Lee posed as a pirate, even a two-headed pirate, which Karen Duquette thought was very weird. | |
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Below: Then
Alex tried on some silly hats |
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Below: The Jet
Express |
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| Below: The tiny 2 X 4 mile island is dotted with historic homes, the nation's third tallest monument, quaint restaurants and local pubs. Beautiful water surrounds Put-in-Bay which claims to have the best walleye and perch fishing in the United States. | |
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Put-in-Bay is
nicknamed the "Key West of the North" |
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Below: A Tiki
Bar with a large pool and a 60-person Jacuzzi |
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Below: Karen
Duquette and her grandson Alex in the pool. Lee Duquette did not go in
the water, as usual. |
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Below: Karen and Alex relaxing in the Jacuzzi |
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You may visit each of the
three (3) sections below in any order you choose.
The page you are presently
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 AFTER
you have viewed all three (3) sections above, please continue on
for the adventures of the two RV Gypsies at Cedar
Point Amusement Park in Sandusky, Ohio See Karen
and Alex ride Top Thrill Dragster - the third fastest roller coaster in
the world and the second tallest roller coaster in the world (as of the
year 2011)
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