|
|
|
|
Joe & Jay in the plane...
|
|
|
Madeline Island at 12 o'clock!
|
|
|
Base leg for Madeline Island...
|
|
|
Short final for Madeline Island's airport....
|
|
|
|
|
Jay with Atlas...we made it!
|
|
|
Joe with Atlas...
|
|
|
The Madeline Island FBO became our shower-room for a few days...
|
|
|
Putting the bikes back together proved a challenge...
|
|
|
|
|
The bikes were our only transportation on the island...
|
|
|
Our campsite was humble, yet had everything we needed...
|
|
|
Another shot of our campsite...
|
|
|
Jay & Joe on one of the many beaches...
|
|
|
|
|
And again...
|
|
|
And again!
|
|
|
The couple who took our picture -- we ran into them again on the ferry...
|
|
|
Joe on the beach...
|
|
|
|
|
On a rock in Lake Superior...
|
|
|
Joe really liked this pose...
|
|
|
Who, me?
|
|
|
Jay & Joe in a Bayfield bar...
|
|
|
|
|
Checking the oil before departure...
|
|
|
Bayfield Harbor...
|
|
|
Bayfield Harbor & Joe...
|
|
|
Bayfield Harbor is beautiful...
|
|
|
|
|
Another shot of Bayfield...
|
|
|
A historic marker in Bayfield...
|
|
|
The car ferry from the air...
|
|
|
Jay on the ferry to Bayfield....
|
|
|
|
|
Joe and the boathouse...
|
|
|
Joe on the ferry....
|
|
|
Joe waiting for the ferry...
|
|
|
Jay on Madeline Island....
|
|
|
|
|
Joe, age 15...
|
|
|
After swimming in Lake Superior...
|
|
|
Joe in the morning...
|
|
|
Ready to take a shower...in the sink.
|
|
|
|
|
On the trail to the beach...
|
|
|
Joe with Turtle Crossing Sign....
|
|
|
Joe sneaking up on a deer....
|
|
|
Joe wading in Lake Superior -- it wasn't cold!
|
|
|
|
|
Joe watching a Piper Cub arrive...
|
|
|
Joe with ferry...
|
|
|
A VERY weird bar on Madeline Island....
|
|
|
Joe strikes a pose in this seasonal bar...
|
|
|
|
|
Joe with tent on Madeline Island....
|
|
|
Bayfield from the air....
|
|
|
And again...
|
|
|
And again...
|
|
|
|
|
And again!
|
|
|
Beach on one of the Apostle Islands...
|
|
|
Ferry from the air...
|
|
|
The ferry in the distance...
|
|
|
|
|
Lighthouse in the Apostle Islands...
|
|
|
Island shoreline...
|
|
|
The water was so blue...
|
|
|
And no one was out here...
|
|
|
|
|
At all!
|
|
|
Rough water on the windward side of an island...
|
|
|
A swampy area from the air...wouldn't want to put down there...
|
|
|
A sailboat is our only company...
|
|
|
|
|
A village on an island...
|
|
|
Madeline Island beach...
|
|
|
|
Miles and miles of beautiful wilderness...
|
|
|
|
|
We stopped in Ashland, WI for gas on our way home...
|
|
|
The giant iron ore docks are still there in Ashland...
|
|
|
It's an almost unbelievably huge structure...
|
|
|
Joe on top of the ore dock...
|
|
|
|
|
You can't grasp the scale in this picture...
|
|
|
This thing will be there in a thousand years...
|
|
|
The ore dock from the air...
|
|
|
It looks like an aircraft carrier...
|
|
|
|
|
Joe & Jay at 10,500 feet on the way home...
|
|
|
Joe, out like a light at 10,500 feet...
|
|
|