Destination? - Bayfield!
&
Lake Superiors' Apostle Islands

October 2005

Longer nights yield shorter days - and less
time for exterior deeds begging to be done.

And the month gives once a year opportunities.

This is the time for aimless drives on back
woods roads.

This is the season for vistas of eye-candy color.

This is the best time to hike the forests of the Bayfield Peninsula, a lush carpet of crisp leaves underfoot, a bright blue sky overhead, and the pleasure of a perfect Fall photo just waiting to be snapped.

This is the end to summer Big Lake sailing, as boats are hoisted to their cradles, and the hard surfaces of
area marinas become a forest of naked masts rising from tarp-covered boats on stilts - like hundreds of faithful Noahs gathered for a promised flood.

All images are thumbnails - click to enlarge.

Welcome Friends! 

Faithful readers of Destination? Bayfield! (1, 248 and counting) will remember your editors' rave comments a couple months ago about the Friends organization.

The Friends are especially welcome to the editor because it opens doors to fresh National Park Service information and concerns, bringing content and images to this newsletter not easily available otherwise.

And the Friends offer a resource that I hope many readers will take advantage of.
 

On Oct.1 the books arrived in Bayfield.

Nature author Jeff Rennicke wrote the text.

Photographer Layne Kennedy took the photos.

Everyone who loves the Apostle Islands should own this book.

Anyone looking for perfect Christmas presents should be investing in this book.

"This is a place that reveals its secrets slowly. Here, you collect memories in pieces, over a summer, over a string of summers, over a lifetime. The only way to come to know these islands is to return again and again, year after year, season after season, collecting images like falling leaves, like colorful pebbles on a beach, like postcards."   Jeff Rennicke

"Jewels on the Water" is available at Keeper of the Light Gift Store on Bayfield's waterfront.

Or send your check for $40.00 and mailing info to Friends
PO Box 1574
Bayfield, WI 54814
 

On Aug.15 the docks were closed to visitors as the final phase of restoration to turn the Station into a 1920's era interpretive museum space began.

So until the 2007  season Raspberry Island will be closed.

The photo here was taken in late September, as heavy machinery installed utility lines, created drainage to direct surface water away from structures, a septic system, and a well.

When the Raspberry Station reopens in 2007, it will again become the "show place of the Apostles," and a "must see" for any visitor to the Apostle Islands who desires to experience what it was like to be a Keeper of the Light on Raspberry Island in the 1920's.
 

No visit to Bayfield is complete until you've invested some shopping time in The Keepers Gift Shop.

One of the few shops in town really open year around, it is located on the waterfront, and offers the largest selection of things nautical anywhere on the south shore of Superior.

When it was time to decorate Sailor's Solace Cottages in a nautical theme, our first stop was the Keepers Shop - and if we didn't see just what was wanted, catalogs came off the shelf, orders placed, and in a few days the perfect item was in place.

From lighthouse replicas to brass lamps, and art prints to stepping stones, you will find great "nautical stuff" at Keeper of the Light Gift Store. 

As an occasional member of the crew, your editor invested waiting time exploring the shoreline, and the fantastic variety of stones found deposited there.

Nature creates the most unique art.

But one must invest the time to see it.
 

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