Gulls In A Row
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Location: Saxon Harbor on Lake Superior; Saxon, Wisconsin
Gulls on the breakwater waiting for the fishing boats (and a snack) to come in.
Saxon Harbor is located in Oronto Bay on the south shore of Lake Superior, near Saxon, WI. There is a county Park with marina, camping, sand beaches and high clay cliffs along the Lake. It is one of the best places on Lake Superior to find concretions, rocks of clay compressed and rolled by the glaciers. A stop at the Harbor Lights tavern for a beer or pop is a must. A lot has been done in recent years to improve the harbor and park. I remember when there were cottages along the beach and up on the cliffs, on the north side of the road. With the soil being clay, shore line is lost with every storm. The cottages were hanging over the edges; you could see the pluming sticking out of the cliff. I was always terrified to walk down the beach, lest a cottage finally give way and plunge down on top of me. Pity the poor saps who watched their property disappear into Lake Superior. Harbor Lights tavern has been relocated several times in the past. Historically, from 1808-30, Saxon Harbor was the site of a fur trading post by John Jacob Astor’s American Fur Company and is near the beginning of the Native American/French Canadian voyagers trade route known as the Flambeau Trail, a 45 mile/120 pause portage over very rough terrain from LaPointe on Madeline Island (Apostle Islands) to Long Lake in southern Iron County, where they could then canoe to the Chippewa village in Lac du Flambeau.
Gulls In A Row belongs to the following groups:
Lake Superior: Gitchigami
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