WE ARE BACK!! And heading to Lake Superior!

Our beautiful dog Crocket celebrating earning the Gold Loop Burgee with us.

After taking a break from boating for a year to care for our beloved dog Crocket, we are back out on the water. Crocket was so loved (and will be forever), he had a great life and loved his time cruising with us. We are so very blessed we were able to join him in becoming a gold looper dog!! We loved everything about cruising with Crocket and want to continue this with our new addition. We now have a puppy named Sawyer, he is six months old (also a Springer Spaniel) and has been on the boat two times...let me repeat this...two times!!! He seems to LOVE it so far so we are going to take the chance and spend over a month traveling on Lake Superior ending our trip in Harbor Springs, MI before crossing Lake Michigan a second time returning to our lovely waters of Green Bay.

Our new puppy Sawyer

Ben and I completed The Great Loop (click here to learn more about The Great Loop) in 2016, and have boated every Great Lake BUT Lake Superior. We had planned to travel Lake Superior before we left for the Loop but time (and me getting sick) prevented this journey. Honestly I was OK with this back then, I was actually quite scared of the big lake. I also did not have the many (over 6,500 miles) hours/miles of experience gained from doing the Loop. Now I feel like we HAVE to do this, we HAVE to conquer the largest Great Lake!!!

Not only is Lake Superior the largest freshwater lake at 350 miles long and 160 miles wide, it is the deepest (1,333 feet at its deepest) and coldest, with average temperatures of 40 degrees, of all the Great Lakes. Because of its size, this lake can really become treacherous given the right winds. There are reports of waves reaching 51 feet high...NO. THANK. YOU!! There have been hundreds of ship wrecks on Lake Superior with over 1,000 lives lost. Most of these occur in the fall when the winds and waves tend to be more aggressive. The calmest months to visit Lake Superior are June and July...Gosh, we have good timing! Of course we planned our trip around these facts and will take each day with stride and not put ourselves in danger. If weather is bad, we stay put. We will enter the Lake from Sault Ste. Marie, boating west along the south shoreline then spending time in the Keweenaw Peninnsula with friends. We would like to make it to the Apostle Islands but we will see how weather and our timing goes.
We will leave our slip in Ephraim, WI and make our way to Washington Island (30 miles north) before we cross Lake Michigan making our way further north! We welcome you to follow along on our travels!