Royalty free photos by Mike¹ – No. 32

Devils Island Lighthouse, Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, Wisconsin, June 7, 2018.

Photo shared as public domain on Pixabay and Flickr as “Devils Island Light.”

Devils Island Light²

The Devils Island Lighthouse is located on Devils Island, one of the Apostle Islands, in Lake Superior in Ashland County, Wisconsin, near the city of Bayfield.

Currently owned by the National Park Service and part of the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

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2. Wikipedia (accessed 7/28/2018)

Royalty free photos by Mike¹ – No. 31

Cabin on Manitou Island, Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, Wisconsin, June 7, 2018.

Manitou Camp²

Manitou Camp is a logging and fishing camp started in the 1890s on Manitou Island, part of the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore. Today, as historically, Manitou Camp is used as a campground and as a facility for fishing. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1983 and is owned by the National Park Service.

In the 1890s four Swedes who were cutting cedar on the island built a cabin in a northern European style. Their cabin remains at the camp to this day, built of cedar logs hand-flattened on two sides, joined with half-dove-tailed notches, chinked with moss, with a small cellar beneath a trapdoor in the floor. When the Swedes finished logging three of them left, but John Hanson stayed on.

Hanson fished year-round, smoked meat, gardened, and had a horse on this remote island. He built a twine shed which remains today. He was joined by a Frenchman, Gus Plud. In the 1920s or 1930s Frank Childs built a cabin there and fished in the winter with a man named Black Pete. In the early 1930s John Hanson built a smokehouse for smoking herring and venison. Later a Captain Bark winter-fished from the camp.

One objective of these fishermen was the November–December herring run. The herring were cleaned and salted right at Manitou camp, then packed into barrels for transport to Bayfield. After the lake froze, the fishermen drove dogsleds out over the ice. They hung gill nets on lines and poles under the ice and after a day or two, collected a catch of whitefish and lake trout. (One wooden fish sled remains at the camp.)

In the 1930s two Norwegian brothers, Theodore and Hjalmer Olson, fished out of Manitou Camp in winters. In 1938 they bought the camp and lived there year-round. They constructed a 14 by 18 foot log bunkhouse in a Scandinavian style, which remains, and a twine shed for storing fishing nets. The Olsons rented cabins to loggers and fishermen, and lived at Manitou camp at least into the 1980s.

Around camp there are also a couple old outhouses, a handmade windlass, boat skids, the remains of a pier, handmade fish boxes, a net reel, a net fork, tarring tank, gutting board, and salt barrels. These remnants of the fishing industry remain where they were used and left. That they were not cleaned up and redeveloped like the valuable land around most docks is what makes Manitou Camp unique in the area.

Photo shared as public domain on Pixabay and Flickr as “Manitou Island Fish Camp Cabin.”

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2. Wikipedia, accessed 7/26/2018

Royalty free photos by Mike¹ – No. 30

Gulls in Bayfield Harbor, Bayfield, Wisconsin, June 5, 2018.

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Royalty free photos by Mike¹ – No. 29

NOAA Research Vessel Shenehon, Bayfield,Wisconsin, June 5, 2018.

Shenehon, a 65.5-foot vessel, is a converted Tug-Transport (T) boat, built in 1953 by the U.S. Army.  It is now part of a fleet of vessels operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory.  The vessel was named in honor of Francis Clinton Shenehon, who was Chief Civilian Engineer of the Great Lakes Survey from 1906-1909 and was Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Minnesota from 1909 to 1917.²

Photo shared as public domain on Pixabay and Flickr as “NOAA Research Boat Shenehon.”

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2. Shenehon Company, accessed July 17, 2018

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Grand Prismatic Spring, Midway Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming,  August 6, 2010 (Pentax K10 D)

It’s not hard to find natural wonders within Yellowstone National Park, but the park’s largest hot spring might be the most remarkable, and not just for its size: dubbed the Grand Prismatic Spring, the hot spring radiates extremely hot water—and stunning prismatic color—from its center.¹

Reference:

1. The Science Behind Yellowstone’s Rainbow Hot Spring – Smithsonian.com (Accessed May 30, 2018)

Note:

Post-processing – Image editing to enhance the photo closer to what the eye “saw.” Images in this series are usually selected within a day or so of being edited and are either posted at the time or scheduled for posting at a later date.

Royalty free photos by Mike¹ – No. 28

Manitou Island Fish Camp, Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, Wisconsin, June 7, 2018.

Manitou Camp²

Manitou Camp is a logging and fishing camp started in the 1890s on Manitou Island, part of the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore. Today, as historically, Manitou Camp is used as a campground and as a facility for fishing. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1983 and is owned by the National Park Service.

In the 1890s four Swedes who were cutting cedar on the island built a cabin in a northern European style. Their cabin remains at the camp to this day, built of cedar logs hand-flattened on two sides, joined with half-dove-tailed notches, chinked with moss, with a small cellar beneath a trapdoor in the floor. When the Swedes finished logging three of them left, but John Hanson stayed on.

Hanson fished year-round, smoked meat, gardened, and had a horse on this remote island. He built a twine shed which remains today. He was joined by a Frenchman, Gus Plud. In the 1920s or 1930s Frank Childs built a cabin there and fished in the winter with a man named Black Pete. In the early 1930s John Hanson built a smokehouse for smoking herring and venison. Later a Captain Bark winter-fished from the camp.

One objective of these fishermen was the November–December herring run. The herring were cleaned and salted right at Manitou camp, then packed into barrels for transport to Bayfield. After the lake froze, the fishermen drove dogsleds out over the ice. They hung gill nets on lines and poles under the ice and after a day or two, collected a catch of whitefish and lake trout. (One wooden fish sled remains at the camp.)

In the 1930s two Norwegian brothers, Theodore and Hjalmer Olson, fished out of Manitou Camp in winters. In 1938 they bought the camp and lived there year-round. They constructed a 14 by 18 foot log bunkhouse in a Scandinavian style, which remains, and a twine shed for storing fishing nets. The Olsons rented cabins to loggers and fishermen, and lived at Manitou camp at least into the 1980s.

Around camp there are also a couple old outhouses, a handmade windlass, boat skids, the remains of a pier, handmade fish boxes, a net reel, a net fork, tarring tank, gutting board, and salt barrels. These remnants of the fishing industry remain where they were used and left. That they were not cleaned up and redeveloped like the valuable land around most docks is what makes Manitou Camp unique in the area.

Photo shared as public domain on Pixabay and Flickr as “Manitou Island Fish Camp.”

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2. Wikipedia, accessed 7/26/2018

Royalty free photos by Mike¹ – No. 2

NOAA Research Vessel Shenehon, Wisconsin, June 5, 2018.

Shenehon, a 65.5-foot vessel, is a converted Tug-Transport (T) boat, built in 1953 by the U.S. Army.  It is now part of a fleet of vessels operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory.  The vessel was named in honor of Francis Clinton Shenehon, who was Chief Civilian Engineer of the Great Lakes Survey from 1906-1909 and was Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Minnesota from 1909 to 1917.²

Photo shared as public domain on Pixabay and Flickr as “Ex-Army Tug Transport Shenehon.”

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2. Shenehon Company, accessed July 17, 2018

Royalty free photos by Mike¹ – No. 26

Ferry in  Bayfield harbor, Wisconsin, June 5, 2018.

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Royalty free images by Mike¹ – No. 58

Brantley Lake Sunset, Brantley Lake State Park, New Mexico, October 15, 2011.

Image shared as public domain on Pixabay and Flickr as “Brantley Lake Sunset.”

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