Despite heavy fog, several NPS employees (representing interpretation, trail crew, natural resources, maintenance, and law enforcement) and an entire troop of boy scouts, along with their leaders, leaped off the Ranger III dock in Snug Harbor this Lake Superior Day, cheering "We love Lake Superior!" as we went. We jumped off several times over a twenty-minute period; the water temp has warmed up considerably.
With temperatures today in the eighties, everyone is longing to jump in the lake - summer has finally reached Isle Royale, complete with an epic summer thunderstorm and magnificent sunset over Tobin Harbor last night. I was very excited for this weather to come, but I must say, it's sort of depressing when you finish a thirty-minute harbor walk drenched in sweat. (Especially when a pair of Texans on my walk scoffed and laughed when I called it a hot day.)
Today is also the first day we haven't been swamped with a thick, almost tangible fog. It's the first day phones have worked in Snug Harbor for nearly two weeks. We were living in a cloud for awhile there; you could actually watch wisps of it blow about around you. Finally, we have been released!
I encourage my fellow Isle Royaleans to get out there and make some splashes in this heat - and stay tuned for photos of the Fitness Challenge, Tobin sunset, and Raspberry Island.
Yours sincerely,
the Snug Harbor Reporter
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