We left early Tuesday morning with the plan to go to Bayfield in the Apostle Islands, weather permitting. Our alternate plan was Ontonagon, MI. Here we are approaching the western end of the Keeweenaw Waterway into Lake Superior.
As it turned out, it was a perfect boating day--little to no wind or waves, sunny and warm with puffy clouds. We saw only 3 other boats on the water for the first 9 hours...this was the tall ship, Europa from the Netherlands heading for Duluth also.
We passed the time reading, knitting and playing cards on the computer while Otto steered.
Here we approached Stockton Island in the Apostles with quite a few boats anchored. We elected to go into Bayfield because there was some severe weather approaching, possibly that night.
While in Bayfield, we played tourist. I shopped till I dropped, but bought very little. But it was fun to have the time to stop in all the shops. Bob walked the town. These two tall ships docked there for the night--the Niagara which is a replica of a battle ship. The other was the Roald Amundsen from Germany. We talked to a crew member who said that of the crew of about 21, 3 had begun the trip in Germany when it started in March. The other crew are people who sign up for however long they can commit.
Here is a view of Bayfield from the dock. The next day we took the ferry to Madeleine Island to spend the day. We walked the town which has changed a lot since we were there. There are newly paved roads including sidewalks and it is much more commercialized. We had a great fish sandwich for lunch at the Bay Street Tavern.
