Well, the picture above is NOT Devil’s Lake. In fact it’s not even in Wisconsin.  In the distance there is the Sable Lighthouse near Grand Marais Michigan.  I spent about a week in Door County, then I made my first-ever excursion to the U.P.  So now I’m back and I suppose i should take a run back out to the lake and see if the water has gone down at all yet.

Hi All!  Just popping in for a moment.  I managed to clear all the messages and comments here and on the forum.  As I mentioned earlier I’m out seeing the world at the moment.  The last few days I’ve been up paddling on the southern side of the Door County Peninsula. The picture above is heading toward the Cana Lighthouse.  Now I’m heading to the "UP". (That’s the bit of Michigan that’s not attached to the rest of the state).  Here I will be spending a few days instructing and paddling around the famous Pictured Rocks area of Lake Superior.  If you’d like to follow along you are always welcome over at KayakQuixotica.com as well.  Otherwise we’ll see ya in a few days!. . . Yep and I did see the Baraboo River is flooding a bit again.  Not too bad though. . .

I have to admit it.  I go nowhere near Devil’s Lake State Park on holiday weekends.  It tends to get just a bit crazy.  I’m sure if holiday weekends were my only opportunity I would, but being local it’s just much nicer to go to the park when it’s not so busy.  The photo above is from the fireworks display in Baraboo just outside the park.  This is the view from my front yard actually.

Meanwhile. . .

Drain??  People always ask if the park has a drain.  Well, no.  However as part of a restoration project a siphon was put in some time back.  It is still used now to help control the volume of the lake. Currently about 2-3 inches of water are being taken off per week.  You can see of course that if it really rains it can far overwhelm the ability to bring the water down.

Back To Nature??  Devil’s Lake is a beautiful natural area.  However "wilderness" might be over doing it.  Devil’s Lake is a very "urban" sort of park in some ways with heavy use, large public areas, it’s own law enforcement and paved trails.  You really have to get out on the periphery of the park to have your hike feel more "wild".

Questions??  Please post your questions to the forum and only comments on the blog.  The reason for this is often people are posting questions to old blog posts which I may not see.  Using the forum for questions really helps me to see them.

Webguy goes missing. . . I’m leaving for Door County on Thursday and will be gone for just over a week.  That means I will not be here to approve questions from non-registered users or answer others.  So I didn’t forget you, I’ll just be gone for a bit.

Spam! – I’m getting a bunch of SPAM registrations to the site and I have to pretty much guess if registrations are legit or not.  Most of the time the emails are obvious spam addresses from Russian account or gmail.  However, if I do delete you by mistake just send an email or leave a note in the forum.  logical user names and email addresses makes it easier for me to tell if you are real!