Summer has been really nice. The temperatures are in the 80 - 85F range with occasional rain. The garden is growing great too. This weekend I checked out a place I had never been before. Last winter I hiked the Ice Caves along the South Shore of Lake Superior and could see this island in the distance across the exapanse of several miles of Lake Superior. The island I camped on is called
Madeline Island, it's part of a chain of islands on the Northern tip of Wisconsin.
The island was first settled by French fur traders in the 1600's, and has a very small population. I actually had a childhood friend who's father was born on this island. These days, the inhabitants are mostly seasonal but some do stay all year round. There is a
thriving art colony on the island but mostly people visit to hike, bike, camp or all of the above.
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| The island has a ferry service that runs every hour until 11pm, if you miss the last one you have to wait until morning to get across! |
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| Crossing the outbound "Madeline" late in the evening. |
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| It took a while to set up a campsite. I have a 5 man "Squad Tent" that really sets up fast and has a lot of room. There was rain in the forecast, so I put the fly on after this pic. |
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| Soon the campfire kept the bugs away! |
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| In the morning I wandered into La Pointe the only town on the island.... |
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| You don't see one of these every day... |
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| Not a very complex network of roads! A really nice map can be found here. |
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| Hope you liked the pics! |
AML NLO, JRO, SEC AML
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