Sunday, August 23, 2009
Thompson West End Park, Washburn, WI: July 30-Aug 1
This is a lovely city/county park that located along the shoreline at the south end of Washburn. Every night you could look out over the water and see the lovely lights of Ashland. We were fortunate here to have friendly neighbors who invited us over each evening to enjoy their campfire and listen to their son's friend sing & play the guitar. He was quite good!
Ashland also had an attractive city park, but Washburn was closer to the places we wanted to spend time. We did go back to Ashland in order to take pictures of their many interesting & attractive murals and to visit a fish shop that had promised to have freshly caught Walleye that day.
We visited Cornucopia, WI in honor of our good friend from Chaco, GB Cornucopia, and discovered a charming small town -- and the northern-most US Post office in Wisconsin. We then visited the Little Sand Bay area of the Apostle Islands Natl Lakeshore, another out of the way place that was quite attractive; so much so that we might look into volunteering here in the future (or maybe at the previously mentioned Northern Great Lakes Visitor Center). These areas in Wisconsin seemed more appealing than some of the harder to reach areas in Michigan.
We had a hard time deciding between the 2-hour cruise or the 3-hour cruise of the Apostle Islands, but we finally decided on the shorter one. That was a wise choice! It was a lovely, quite well-run and relaxing cruise, but 2 hours was more than enough. We were able to see some interesting historical places along the shore of several of the islands and one really attractive lighthouse, but for the most part we were just riding along looking at islands covered with trees. One looked pretty much like the next.
Ashland also had an attractive city park, but Washburn was closer to the places we wanted to spend time. We did go back to Ashland in order to take pictures of their many interesting & attractive murals and to visit a fish shop that had promised to have freshly caught Walleye that day.
We visited Cornucopia, WI in honor of our good friend from Chaco, GB Cornucopia, and discovered a charming small town -- and the northern-most US Post office in Wisconsin. We then visited the Little Sand Bay area of the Apostle Islands Natl Lakeshore, another out of the way place that was quite attractive; so much so that we might look into volunteering here in the future (or maybe at the previously mentioned Northern Great Lakes Visitor Center). These areas in Wisconsin seemed more appealing than some of the harder to reach areas in Michigan.
We had a hard time deciding between the 2-hour cruise or the 3-hour cruise of the Apostle Islands, but we finally decided on the shorter one. That was a wise choice! It was a lovely, quite well-run and relaxing cruise, but 2 hours was more than enough. We were able to see some interesting historical places along the shore of several of the islands and one really attractive lighthouse, but for the most part we were just riding along looking at islands covered with trees. One looked pretty much like the next.
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