Still more scenes from the lake

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Scenes from northern Wisconsin, summer 2017

More annual lakeside fun in the Northwoods

You may not find this terribly rewarding unless you're included here, so this is a good time for casual and random browsers to turn back before they get too caught up in the sweep and majesty of the proceedings and can't let go.

Still more scenes from the lake

Summer 2017 -- so far we've been on our annual study tour with the Wisconsin Wetlands Association and hosted daughters Alison and Marlowe and their nuclear families on the lake. Now for still more random additions to the seasonal photo dump.

It's Eclipse Day on the dock! (21 August 2017)

Some of us have cheap regulation eclipse-watching glasses. Others made their own.

Ooh. Darker.

Dinner with guests Lori and her friend Roxane (21 August 2017)

Discovering that YouTube has probably hundreds of brilliant but little-known 18th century composers

The Storm of the Century (22 August 2017)

Hydrobikes are famously stable in most conditions, but when the waves coming from behind are going faster than the hull speed of the bike, it's wallowing and unsteerable. We're running for the point.

Quiet behind the point, and ten minutes later the rain stops

Getting ready to peek out into the centre lake again

According to our guide, the north wind across the lake anticipates the hillside on our left and goes up over it . . .

. . . leaving us comfortably unbattered by the wind for the moment.

Melvin the Centrepiece

Melvin has proved himself to be fairly sensible and is now being let out of doors to emulate his jungle ancestors for a while each day.

He's probably feared throughout the underbrush, by now, as a dreaded insect catcher. No birds yet, luckily.

A speedy trip towards Adjidaumo, the centre island (23 August 2017)

A salute to the eagle on duty on Adjidaumo

A cute cabin on Raymond's island (officially, 'Crescent Island'; see map below)

Duck hunting

Didn't mean to startle them

End of the day, Cousin Rob sets off home down the far side of the lake

At a leisurely pace. Allowing time for solitary reflection and stock-taking

Another vicious rainy day (26 August 2017)

But why not? It's only rain (i.e., no lightning so far).

It's not easy to stay under the trees (without grounding the propeller).

Out into open water

Red willow roots trying to revivify this old fallen tree

Briefly under the trees, around the Tigertail point

The southern bay towards South Shore Drive. Fewer jetskis out today -- the only humans seen so far have been a heavily ponchoed man and his son fishing off their dock near the far end of this photo.

A hornets' nest delicately poised

It's getting right cold -- we'll start back. About 4km back to the dock.

Crossing the bar (to 'Beaver Island')

Up Propeller!

Bien fait!

This is what hydrobike specialist Cousin Rob calls 'pedaling uphill'.

Under the highway bridge (29 August 2017)

We're searching the shore for 1) chanterelles, trumpets of death, or other tasty mushrooms, 2) invasive weeds (like purple loosestrife), 3) ducks, turtles, fish, snakes, maybe muskrats.

The highway bridge from peaceful little South Bay

The State-Owned Island, called Baby Leigh

Red willow roots all round the whole little island, desperate to get things healthy again

Cousin Rob viewing the red willow roots

The Lake Association President for Life measuring the clarity/turbidity of the water with a Secchi Disk

Back to Mussent Point at the end of the day

Dinner and a boat ride at Lori's on Fence Lake

A preprandial boat ride through some of the lake system around Fence Lake, most of which is on the reservation of the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians (30 August 2017)

Our new friend Lori's family has a cottage on the lake and we're been invited out for a gang dinner, preceded by a bracing pontoon boat ride.

Channels between the necklace of little lakes, not entirely straightforward going for a pontoon boat

Boathouses on the Placid Twin Lakes

We're recording as many boathouses as we can for absent friends who take the hobby pretty seriously, but nothing really stands out.

Back out to Fence lake and now through a channel to Crawling Stone Lake . . .

. . . as the temperature drops and the sun heads south.

Time for dinner, yes?

Kirk and Kristin (and Joellen under blankets) braving the spray at high floatboat speeds into the wind

Whitman and Liz doing the best they can for the dog

Captain Lori

A book plug: Horsemen of the Trumpocalypse by John Nichols (Whitman's dad) of The Nation magazine, newly released -- 3-4 page profiles of the outrageous cronies in the Trump White House universe, fact-filled and frequently very funny.

Don't disturb the centrepiece.

Huh?

What!?!

Another eagle and . . .

. . . a turtle.

The Lake in the Wisconsin Northwoods

Mussent Point is at no. 12.