Cranberry River, Day One paddling

Continuing the Lake Superior trip story, here we are back, looking at some yummy images of the Cranberry River, ice-cold as the lake, and our trip out of our bay, which looked massive upon arrival, and around a few points.





We stayed at a tiny resort in Herbster. It was old-fashioned, and plain, but you could step our your front door and toss a baseball into the water. We left our kayaks in the yard of the place, the walked down and launched from a rocky beach, down the shoreline.

We stopped up the beach, crossed a spit and up the river we went. It was spooky, as the bar owner in Herbster said, "You go up the rivers, you'll see some bears."





The river was glass, and there was no wind, so it was pretty spooky, but alas, no, we spotted no bears.

We came back to the lake, then headed out and up around the point to the south of town. The rock formations were nice, not sea caves, but easy-access. We rounded the point and the lake was glassy, nice. It really picked up waves-wise on Sunday, but the locals said the Herbster bay remained calm.

I have to admit, we'd have taken more photos, but there's a sense of power on the big lake, and all that cold water, that even in good conditions, I was not feeling too cocky. But it felt so good to be back on that massive, icy beauty.



JCB

The Slough

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Originally uploaded by Iron Bieso

Laura and I made a trip to Herbster, Wis., over Labor Day weekend, and we were out in boats three times on three different bodies of water. On our second day, we hit the slough that sits just off Bark Bay, between the towns of Herbster and Cornucopia.

The slough was the site of our only let-down: We paddled it in hopes of moving into Lake Superior itself, but the sun was setting and we were hoping to avoid a take-out in the dark.

So we came close to paddling out of the slough, but did not make it. Only regret on the whole trip.



Even this slough was crystal clear, cold, and a bit on the intimidating side, we were expecting a bit more swamp, but hey, this is northern Wisconsin.

We did paddle over a lot of lilies and had a good time, just checking it all out. A turtle and this heron encouraged us to go forward.







We'll have more on our river trip and our lake paddles, asap.

Jarett

Back to Big Water

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Originally uploaded by Iron Bieso

Laura and I ran off to Herbster, Wis., last weekend. We made a number of cool paddles and we'll be tossing up some pix asap.

You can visit Flickr, I'm on there as Iron Bieso and all my photos are public, so check 'em out.

We'll post narratives etc. with the pix very soon.

Cheers,

Dos Biesos