Tue, 6/29/10
Wagon Trail Resort, Ellison Bay, WI: A chilly, sunny morning. We drove down to Whitefish Dunes State Park/Natural Area. All the years we’ve been coming up here we’ve never been to this park. The Whitefish Dunes State Park and the Cave Point county park are basically right next to each other. We always went to the Cave Point park, never realizing that the state park was two miles up the road. These two parks are the very antithesis of each other. Whitefish Dunes has a pretty, crescent-shaped beach and Cave Point has a rugged, rocky shoreline and each wave that comes in makes a hollow thumping noise as it hits the hollowed-out, rocky shoreline. At Whitefish Dunes we walked a trail that went along the beach for a while and then up over the huge dunes. You would never know they were dunes, however, since they were so heavily forested. My leg muscles were screaming by the time we got to the top. Continued on through the woods on the other side of the dunes. Back to the truck and drove the two miles or so to Cave Point park. This place is really neat with large outcropping of rock to explore. There was a girl there with her bulldog, Oscar. He was a real character and definitely had an affinity to water. Drove back up the peninsula to Bailey’s Harbor to have dinner at the steakhouse, Florian, but they were closed. So, we went across the street to the Blue Ox and had something to eat. Back home and started watching a Ken Burns production of Frank Lloyd Wright, which was very apropos since I’m reading a book about him right now. High 60s today.
Wagon Trail Resort, Ellison Bay, WI: A chilly, sunny morning. We drove down to Whitefish Dunes State Park/Natural Area. All the years we’ve been coming up here we’ve never been to this park. The Whitefish Dunes State Park and the Cave Point county park are basically right next to each other. We always went to the Cave Point park, never realizing that the state park was two miles up the road. These two parks are the very antithesis of each other. Whitefish Dunes has a pretty, crescent-shaped beach and Cave Point has a rugged, rocky shoreline and each wave that comes in makes a hollow thumping noise as it hits the hollowed-out, rocky shoreline. At Whitefish Dunes we walked a trail that went along the beach for a while and then up over the huge dunes. You would never know they were dunes, however, since they were so heavily forested. My leg muscles were screaming by the time we got to the top. Continued on through the woods on the other side of the dunes. Back to the truck and drove the two miles or so to Cave Point park. This place is really neat with large outcropping of rock to explore. There was a girl there with her bulldog, Oscar. He was a real character and definitely had an affinity to water. Drove back up the peninsula to Bailey’s Harbor to have dinner at the steakhouse, Florian, but they were closed. So, we went across the street to the Blue Ox and had something to eat. Back home and started watching a Ken Burns production of Frank Lloyd Wright, which was very apropos since I’m reading a book about him right now. High 60s today.
Beach at Whitefish Dunes State Park
Picture by Mike
(water temps in the low 60s and people in there swimming!)
Big slab of rock at Cave Point Park
Artist painting the rugged shore
The beautiful rugged shore
The handsome bulldog, Oscar
Me and Oscar--Picture by Mike
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