Apostle Islands National Lakeshore

A recent University of Minnesota Duluth study claims that Lake Superior is a prime example of global warming and its effects. The "ice road" to Madeline Island begins to break up in Spring of each year.   According to a recent article in the Duluth News-Tribune, the Lake Superior winter ice cover has, in general, diminished over the last thirty years, with a corresponding rise in average lake water temperature.  And another study by a local Bayfield resident who researched weather data back to 1857 claims that today we are seeing an average of forty-five fewer ice-covered days in our area of Chequamegon Bay than there were in the mid-1800s.  The article goes ... Read Full Story

A recent University of Minnesota Duluth study claims that Lake Superior is a prime example of global warming and its effects. The "ice road" to Madeline Island begins to break up in Spring of each year.   According to a recent article in the Duluth News-Tribune, the Lake Superior winter ice cover has, in general, diminished over the last thirty years, with a corresponding rise in average lake water temperature.  And another study by a local Bayfield resident who researched weather data back to 1857 claims that today we are seeing an average of forty-five fewer ice-covered days in our area of Chequamegon Bay than there were in the mid-1800s.  The article goes ... Read Full Story

One of the biggest challenges to an independent real estate company is creating a unique company image that reflects your service area and the type of business in which you specialize.  Ideally, that image shoud be part of your entire marketing strategy, including print and Web marketing and even in the way your office is decorated We started a company on Madeline Island, in La Pointe, Wisconsin (just off the south shore of Lake Superior) in 2001.  Madeline Island is a recreational/second home community that is popular with summer residents and tourists from all over the country, especially the Midwest.  The Island is also home to over two hundred year-round residents ... Read Full Story

Yesterday, the Madeline Island Ferry Line shut down service between Madeline Island and the Bayfield mainland.   Cars and trucks on the Lake Superior ice, just off the Bayfield, Wisconsin shoreline   This weekend, there will be "limited" windsled service across the two miles of Chequamegon Bay ice, with Saturday trips departing the Island at 9 am, 11:30 and 4 pm.  Saturday windsled runs will depart Bayfield at 9:15, 12:15 and 4:15 daily, for the time being [schedule subject to change]. On Sundays, the planned windsled schedule is as follows: Trips depart La Pointe at 9, Noon and 4 pm.  Trips depart Bayfield at 9:15, 12:15 and ... Read Full Story

This was pretty cool. I was "beachcombing" near the Port Wing Marina in northwestern Wisconsin a couple weeks ago.  I'm like a kid when I'm walking the beach up here.  There's the usual assortment of nature's unique driftwood sculptures, twisted by the blustery winds of Lake Superior and polished by waves.  There are flat sandstone slabs, agates and miscellaneous rocks shaped by the action of sand and water. But what caught my eye was the gleaming edge of a piece of rock embedded in the sand. I knew it was metallic by its weight and density.  And it was clear from the glint of ... Read Full Story