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   Iowa City, Iowa  52246
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2006 Madeline Island

Every summer since he could reach the pegs, Joe and I have done a father-son trip, either on the motorcycle or in the airplane.  This year, Joe chose the airplane, and together we selected Madeline Island as our destination.

One of the Apostle Islands in Lake Superior, Madeline Island offered us the correct balance of accessible-only-by-air (or boat) yet civilized enough so that we wouldn't starve!   With mile after mile of beautiful shoreline and bike trails, we were assured of having something fun to do -- as long as the weather would hold.

And hold it did!  In fact, it was blazing hot, which made for some terrific swimming and biking.  Together we enjoyed the trip of a lifetime -- it was an absolutely marvelous few days together.

Click here to view a video of Joe breaking rocks in Lake Superior....

Click here to listen to a video of coyotes howling near our tent (turn the volume way up!)...

Click here to see how clear the Lake Superior water is...

Click here to see towering cumulous clouds at 10,500 feet...

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...