Saturday on Northern Lakes

Today Travalon and I drove to a covered bridge on a state forest road, and we took some pictures even though it was raining pretty hard at that point. If you look closely, you can see the raindrops in these photos!

Then we drove to the south side of the Turtle Flambeau Flowage, and this sign for a self-storage company made us laugh:

We saw these people canoeing in the mist, amidst the myriad tiny islands, and it made me really want to canoe, but it's not easy to find a place to rent a canoe in the Flowage.

                             

We drove past a sign for a resort on Little Muskie Lake, so we drove in and asked the owner if she rented canoes. She seemed confused by the question but said she did have some canoes and kayaks and a paddle boat, so for $15 we could use them for the afternoon. (They are for people staying at the resort.) We took out two kayaks and paddled around the periphery of the lake, and that took about an hour. Perfect!

Then we stopped at Sandy Beach Lake and took a walk.

We drove onto the Lac du Flambeau reservation and had a late lunch at a restaurant there. So good! I had an Indian taco made with fry bread. We sat in a covered porch overlooking Lac du Flambeau the lake, and I took a picture of our view, but Blogspot in its infinite wisdom has decided I have put enough photos on this post, so it abruptly stopped letting me add any more. You will just have to imagine it until I get back home and have more bandwidth. 

Then we took a pontoon ride on Lake Minocqua, the same one we had taken before but this time in the evening. We were afraid there would be a thunderstorm right at that time, but in fact the drizzle cleared up and the weather was beautiful. Here is a picture of Beer Can Island, still crazy at that hour with people partying on the sandbar.

And we saw lots of loons! Travalon made a video of a mother with two teenagers, so I will edit and post that at some point.

This boathouse belongs to the family that owns 7-Up.

We saw a spectacular sunset, a bald eagle in a tree, and its teenager in the nest, but Blogspot won't let me post the picture of the young eagle so that will have to wait too.

It was lovely taking the cruise in the evening, because as we headed back to port all the lights were coming up. This is a restaurant called the Thirsty Whale.

Travalon and I tried to go there after the boat ride, but they were done serving food for the evening. We will try to go there tomorrow for lunch after Mass. Hopefully we can get into Mass! There is a limit to how many people can attend, and there are still an awful lot of tourists here, some of whom may be practicing Catholics.

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