This past Saturday I caught some of the PGA Championship golf tournament on TV; not because I’m a fan of golf on TV, because I’m not, but because it was being held along the Wisconsin side of Lake Michigan not that far from where we live. The thing that caught […]
Tag: Wisconsin
Perfect Day for a Perfect Paddle
Back in March I looked at my calendar and realized our summer weekends were quickly being booked for various types of events. I knew I wanted to host another “Paddle Across the Bay” so I chose June 27 for a paddle across Death’s Door. As luck would have it, yesterday […]
Plum Island Open for Business
Today Mary and I paddled the Death’s Door crossing from the northernmost mainland of Wisconsin’s Door County to Plum Island. There we viewed restoration work on the Plum Island lifesaving station, which began operations April 1, 1896, serving the Portes des Morts Passage (more commonly called “Death’s Door”) at the […]
Pressure ridges, aka “ice shoves”
This week photos online and on the local news showed ice pressure ridges in northern Door County Wisconsin. People around here call them “ice shoves.” Some were claiming the ice was more than 30 feet high and carried a beautiful shade of blue. I decided to drive up there and […]