Royalty free photos by Mike¹ – No. 37

Beach Gravel, Black Beach Park, Silver Bay, Minnesota, June 12, 2018.

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Royalty free photos by Mike¹ – No. 36

Devils Island Lighthouse, Apostle Island National Historic Site, Apostle Islands Cruises Grand Tour, Wisconsin, June 7, 2018.

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Post-processing #39 |

Shell Spring, Biscuit Basin, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, August 6, 2010 (Pentax K10D)

Shell Spring’s name is derived from the shape of the it’s crater, a geyserite structure vaguely reminiscent of a giant clam shell. It is a cyclic geyser with several hours of recovery between the long lasting active phases.  Although the spring is only 2 feet deep, in 1930 a 3-year-old Idaho girl fell into it and, later, died from her injuries.¹

Temperature 200°F Interval 1.5 to several hours. Duration 20-90 seconds. Height 5-8 feet. “Before an eruption, water in the crater begins to rise and may boil. Heavy churning then occurs, setting off the first small, weak eruption. As the eruptions subside water begins to lower and drain back into the crater.” ²

Reference:

1. Volcanic Springs (Accessed 5/31/2018)
2. Biscuit Basin – YellowstoneNationalPark.com (Accessed 5/31/2018)

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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. 35

Kawishiwi Falls Trail, near Winton, Minnesota, June 11, 2018.

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Royalty free photos by Mike¹ – No. 34

Split Rock Lighthouse, Split Rock Lighthouse State Park, near Silver Bay, Minnesota, June 12, 2018.

Split Rock Light Light²

Split Rock Lighthouse is a lighthouse located southwest of Silver Bay, Minnesota, USA on the North Shore of Lake Superior. The structure was designed by lighthouse engineer Ralph Russell Tinkham and was completed in 1910 by the United States Lighthouse Service at a cost of $75,000, including the buildings and the land. It is considered one of the most picturesque lighthouses in the United States.

Split Rock Lighthouse was built in response to the great loss of ships during the famous Mataafa Storm of 1905, in which 29 ships were lost on Lake Superior. One of these shipwrecks, the Madeira, is located just north of the lighthouse.

It is built on a 133-foot (41 m) sheer cliff eroded by wave action from a diabase sill containing inclusions of anorthosite. The octagonal building is a steel-framed brick structure with concrete trim on a concrete foundation set into the rock of the cliff. It is topped with a large, steel lantern which features a third order, bi-valve type Fresnel lens manufactured by Barbier, Bernard and Turenne Company in Paris, France. The tower was built for a second order lens, but when construction went over budget, there was only enough funding remaining for the smaller third order lens. The lens floats on a bearing surface of liquid mercury which allows near frictionless operation. The lens is rotated by an elaborate clockwork mechanism that is powered by weights running down the center of the tower which are then reset by cranking them back to the top. When completed, the lighthouse was lit with an incandescent oil vapor lamp that burned kerosene.

At the time of its construction, there were no roads to the area and all building materials and supplies arrived by water and lifted to the top of the cliff by crane. The light was first lit on July 31, 1910. Thanks to its dramatic location, the lighthouse soon became a tourist attraction for sailors and excursion boats. So much so, that in 1924 a road (now Minnesota State Highway 61) was built to allow land access.

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2. Wikipedia (accessed 7/28/2018)

Royalty free photos by Mike¹ – No. 33

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

Raspberry Island Light²

The Raspberry Island Lighthouse is a lighthouse located on the southern part of Raspberry Island, marking the west channel of the Apostle Islands in Lake Superior in Bayfield County, Wisconsin, near the city of Bayfield. It was erected in 1862, marking the western channel.

It is said to be one of the few surviving wood framed lighthouses left on Lake Superior. The complex includes a square tower rising up from the attached Lighthouse keeper’s quarters, a brick fog signal building, frame barn, brick oil house, boathouse, two outhouses, and a dock.^[3]

The light was automated in 1947 and was later transferred to the National Park Service as part of the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. The original Fresnel lens is on display at the Madeline Island Historical Museum.

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2. Wikipedia (accessed 7/28/2018)

Royalty free photos by Mike¹ – No. 32

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

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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.

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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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