Photos of Our Apostle Islands Cruise

 

Today Travalon got done with work early, so he went to the Union Terrace, and I joined him there. Then I got busy with random stuff, including checking my email address that I always forget exists until people tell me they sent me email that I never got at my usual email address, so of course I am once again blogging way too late. But at least I can sleep later tomorrow because for the first time in what feels like ages, I can work from home!

Here are photos from our Apostle Islands cruise. First, the marina by where we caught our boat.

Doesn't the town of Bayfield look so cute from the water?

These are blocks of brownstone that were abandoned when the bottom fell out of the market for them.

See the volunteer waving to us from the old Manitou Island fish camp?

We saw wildlife, some eagles that Travalon didn't get good shots of, and here are cormorants.

The sea caves in the red stone of Devil's Island were truly spectacular.

This one even looks like a skull! 

This one kind of looks like a face too.

Here is the lighthouse on Devil's Island.

I took this shot with my cell phone. Not too bad, ey? The natives called this island "Evil Spirit Island" because in the caves the wind sometimes sounds like a woman wailing. (We didn't hear that.)

I don't know why my photo of Travalon, taken at the same spot, is so dark.

The lighthouse on Devil's Island is the last one in the Apostle Islands with this kind of lens.

Here are shots of the lighthouse complex on Raspberry Island.

The sun was starting to sink in the sky as we returned to port.

I like this church on the hill. I have no idea if it's Catholic.

Here is a view of the port.

In the background, you can see a building with blue umbrellas on the roof. That's the Bayfield Inn, the restaurant where we ate dinner. They must get a lot of business from people who see them from the boats, because lots of our fellow diners had been on our cruise. The food is very good.

This is the ferry to Madeline Island, which we have taken before.

Madeline Island is not part of the National Shoreline, because too many people lived there for the government to buy all their property to make the island part of the park. The other islands were lightly populated, and the properties on them were grandfathered in so that they could be registered to one person until that person dies. This happened right around the time I was born, and people were busy registering these properties to their babies, but now those babies are middle-aged so soon all the islands but Madeline will revert to government control. However, Madeline Island has a lively scene with Tom's Burned-Down Bar, which I have featured on this blog before, so you can always move there.

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Waterfalls in Northern Wisconsin

 

As promised, here are photos of the Northern Wisconsin waterfalls we saw on Sunday. The first is Interstate Falls on the Montreal River. The other side of the river is the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. I thought this was one of the prettiest waterfalls we saw.

Next is Kimball Falls on the Montreal River. They aren't quite as spectacular, plus the creepy guy who lives across from them was staring at us. (We didn't take a photo of him.)

Saxon Falls is far more scenic. It is also on the Montreal River. Montreal is a small town west of Hurley that doesn't appear to have a mountain. However, there is a mountain that seems to tower over Hurley as you approach from the south. I think it might be Mount Zion in Ironwood.

We also stopped by Saxon Harbor.

The water was so clear there!

Superior Falls on the Montreal River were truly spectacular, cascading 90 feet.

This is the Bad River as seen from Copper Falls State Park.

Copper Falls is on the Bad River.

And so is Brownstone Falls.

In the same state park, we debated about going to Granite Falls, but it was a longish hike, so we just sat on the shores of Loon Lake and admired the bluff across the way.

Upson Falls on the Potato River were so pretty that I'm posting two photos. Here's a closer shot.

And here's a shot from the road.

So here are some more photos, which of course Blogspot loaded in reverse order. First, the pastel bakery in Ironwood where we had a pasty yesterday.

Here is a shot I took of Superior Falls.

This is from the lookout point on Mount Zion in Ironwood. We actually started the day there, going before Mass, and then we went back with the good camera.

I loved this hill you could see in the distance. This is zoomed in on it.

And here you can see it as part of the vista from the mountain.

Stay tuned tomorrow, when I will be posting photos from our Apostle Islands cruise!

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