Before and After
On Friday, I took a day trip to the South Shore of Lake Superior in Wisconsin. I noticed the changes that have occurred since I first visited the area a decade ago; changes in the three areas I visited.
There was once a commercial fishing operation in Little Sand Bay. The bay is in the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore. When I first visited in 2015, there was a long, and long-abandoned, fish house on a jetty that stuck out into the lake. The jetty extended farther into the lake from the fish house and served as a breakwater. The fish house and jetty in 2015 had already been attacked by wind, waves, and ice. By 2017, the structures had deteriorated further. Finally, the National Park Service took steps to preserve what was left. What remains is part of the fish house. There is no longer the portion of jetty sticking out into the lake.
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The first time I visited the Port Wing Marina, there was a derelict fishing boat sunk in the river. I saw it there for years, every time I visited. On Friday, when I got out of my car, I was assaulted by the roar of an engine. It turned out to be the derelict boat; no longer derelict, but resurrected. Someone got it running and floating again.
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I stopped last at the mouth of the Brule River where it flows into Lake Superior. On my first visit, there was a long, narrow peninsula of sand between the final, few hundred yards of the river and the lake. On Friday, I saw that the river had carved out a new channel. Now there was a shorter peninsula and a sand bar.
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