Katy Dickinson

Loon Lake, Wisconsin

We were on vacation with John's family at the cottage on Loon Lake in Wisconsin last week. The 75-year-old cottage still has more boats than bedrooms even after it was expanded last year. As always, we spent the week in and on the water: fishing, paddle boating, canoeing, sailing, and being pulled in an inner tube behind the speedboat ("tubing"). Mornings at the cottage are for cleanup and chores but afternoons are mostly spent wet.

This year was notable for the great number and variety of large birds. Loon Lake currently has two loon families, including a new baby, and three nesting osprey pairs in addition to the resident bald eagles, herons, hummingbirds, pheasants, wild turkeys, and songbirds. The half-drowned island in the middle of Loon Lake is called Osprey Island. We even went to dinner at a restaurant which had a family of peafowl.

Six of us spent an afternoon white water rafting down the Wolf River where it runs through the Menominee Indian Tribe reservation (between Otter Slide and Smokey Falls). My camera survived the trip in a zip bag that almost got washed out several times.

One of the delights of Loon Lake is going pontooning at sunset. After 5 p.m., all boats must go slow enough to create no wake so the lake gets quiet. After dinner, my Mother-in-Law Naomi makes coffee. We take our cups and dessert out to the pontoon boat and make a trip around the island as the sun goes down. The loons are often out making their strange moaning or laughing sounds over the evening waters.

2006 Loon Lake Voecks Cottage:

2007 Loon Lake Voecks Cottage with Addition:

Loon Sign Voecks Cottage:

Loon Sign Voecks Cottage:

Loon Sign Voecks Cottage:

Loon Sign Voecks Cottage:

Voecks Cottage Boat Dock:

Wisconsin Pheasant:

White Peacock display:

Wolf River WI Rafting:

Wolf River WI Rafting:

Wolf River WI Rafting:

Wolf River WI Rafting:

Wolf River WI Rafting:

Wolf River WI Rafting:

Wolf River WI Rafting:

Wolf River WI at Smokey Falls:

Shotgun Eddy's Rafting Map:

Loon Lake, Osprey Island at Sunset:

Loon Lake Pontooning:

Loon Lake Pontooning:

Images Copyright 2006-2007 by Katy Dickinson

Posted at 11:55AM Jun 27, 2007 by katysblog in Home & Family  |  Comments[1]