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... 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... 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... 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... 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... Read Full Story
Some vacation destinations tout "more," but Bayfield, Wis., entices visitors with "less." Located in Wisconsin at the threshold of the Apostle Islands on Lake Superior, Bayfield has found the town's strength is that it does offer less crowds, less lines, less traffic and less tourist hype and that it's a uniquely relaxing place to visit. After a two-year re-branding effort, the scenic community is setting itself apart from other destinations with this promise -- Bayfield and the Apostle... 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... Read Full Story
The Apostle Islands Historic Preservation Conservancy, Inc. (AIHPC), a nonprofit organization devoted to the preservation of the culturally and historically significant resources in the Apostle Islands region hosted a presentation highlighting a portion of the fascinating history of Sand Island, one of the 22 islands in the archipelago.
The focal point of the history talk and slide presentation given by Bob Mackreth, retired historian for the Apostles Islands National Lakeshore, was about... Read Full Story
This morning, on the CBS affiliate television station in Minneapolis & Saint Paul (WCCO Channel 4), I noticed a thirty-second commercial for " Wisconsin Epic Vacations " that opened with video footage of the Michigan Island lighthouse, located just off the northern tip of Madeline Island! [ Michigan Island Lighthouse in the Apostle Islands, Ashland County, Wisconsin ] It turns out that the commercial was intended to promote tourism on behalf of Lambeau Field, home of the Green Bay Packers... Read Full Story
According to the news services, the Federal Government estimates that twelve per cent of Americans plan to spend their "economic stimulus" rebates on vacation travel.
The local television news reported this eveing that the average gasoline cost will be about $58 round trip for someone in the Twin Cities (Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota) to vacation in Duluth. That's about five dollars more than last summer.
So I'd estimate it would cost a little over $60 for the same Twin Cities... Read Full Story
