Although a bit on the chilly side to wade in the Lake Superior water, the beach draws people for an afternoon of fun in the sun on the sand on this holiday weekend.
Little Sand Bay Beach
Picture of the Day for January 4, 2022
The above normal temperature this afternoon felt nice, but it was still below freezing so unlikely to be walking on the beach in shorts or wading into the water since there is already ice forming on Lake Superior. And more likely to see snowflakes in the sky and not rainbows this cloudy day.
Rainbow Over Superior
Picture of the Day for October 22, 2019
Sections of Lake Superior shores are needing to be clean up after yesterday storm which had big waves crashing in from the strong winds. Today people were surveying the damage and even these birds were checking out the new debris which the waves washed up on shore now that the lake has quieted down.
Surveying the Storm
Picture of the Day for January 13, 2015
“Farming wasn’t going too well for three families…we could hold up a mirror and watch ourselves starve to death.” A statement from Florence Hokenson on why her husband and his two brothers started fishing for a living in the late 1920’s when at first the fishing only supplemented their diet but after several unsuccessful years of dairy farming they purchased pond nets and eventually pursued fishing full-time which they did for more than thirty years on Lake Superior.
The Herring Shed was a busy place during herring season where the wives, children, and hired hands awaited the arrival of the Hokenson brothers boat called the Twilite, loaded with fish in gill nets. The fish were untangled from the net, rinsed in the wooden tank, gutted and beheaded, rinsed again in the other tank, drip-dried on the rack, salted, and stacked in a barrel.
The Herring Shed
Picture of the Day for December 11, 2014
While not my typical barn picture, this barn-like building is called the Twine Shed, which is found on the site of the Hokenson Brothers Fishery on the shore of Lake Superior, north of Bayfield, Wisconsin.
Named for the twine used in fishing nets, nets were prepared, repaired, and stored in the building and a fishing net reel can be seen in the foreground. Fish boxes full of gill nets and floats were stacked inside the barn but it was more than just storage for fishing equipment as it was also the workshop, smithy, machine and carpenter shop. The Twine Shed embodies the necessary skills of a commercial fisherman.
The Twine Shed
