{"id":8936,"date":"2021-07-07T19:31:46","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T00:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/?p=8936"},"modified":"2023-08-02T19:21:44","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T00:21:44","slug":"apostle-islands-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/2021\/apostle-islands-2021","title":{"rendered":"Apostle Islands 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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We recently went for a quick trip to Stockton Island<\/strong> in my friend’s new boat. Stockton has the huge advantage of partially sheltered bays with places to tie up the boat. [Full Gallery<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Campsite #19<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We made an amphibious landing<\/strong> to offload our gear and then moored the boat about a mile away at the pier (seen in the distance above). I pitched my hammock tent<\/strong> right on the beach between mature white and red pines. The level of Lake Superior<\/strong> had recently gone down so there was a more normal amount of beach exposed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The highlight of this trip came early, as we took a short walk away from the visitors center and came upon this magnificent orchid, the Pink Lady’s Slipper<\/strong>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pink Lady’s Slipper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

“In order to survive and reproduce, Pink Lady’s Slipper interacts with a fungus<\/strong> in the soil. Generally, orchid seeds do not have food supplies inside them\u2026 The lady\u2019s slipper seeds require threads of fungus to break open and attach to the seed. The fungus will pass on food and nutrients. When the lady\u2019s slipper plant is older… the fungus will extract nutrients from its roots. This mutually beneficial relationship between the orchid and the fungus is known as \u201csymbiosis<\/strong>\u201d and is typical of almost all orchid species.<\/p>

Pink lady\u2019s slipper takes many years to go from seed to mature plants. Pink lady’s slippers can live to be twenty years old<\/strong> or more\u2026”<\/p>www.fs.fed.us<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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“These plants require bees for pollination<\/strong>. Bees are lured into the flower pouch through the front slit, attracted by the flower\u2019s bright color and sweet scent. Once inside, the bees find no reward, and discover that they are trapped, with only one point of escape<\/strong>. Inside the pouch, there are hairs that lead to a pair of exit openings, one beneath each pollen mass. The bee must pass under the stigma, so if it bears any pollen from a visit to another flower, it will be deposited before picking up a fresh load on the way out.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

There is a reason I’ve never seen one of these flowers before\u2014June is bug season<\/strong> in the north woods. Campers avoid that month. For this trip the breeze<\/strong> from the lake kept the bugs at bay on the beach, but they were pretty aggressive back in the woods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There were other plants in bloom but it was obviously the end of the season for most…<\/p>\n\n\n

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Twin Flower (Linnaea borealis)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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Wintergreen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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Marsh Marigold<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The nearby campsites were empty so we had a pleasant evening of good food, good drink, & good company!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For our second day we moved around the corner to Quarry Bay<\/strong> near the site of an old brownstone quarry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Quarry Bay (Campsite #20)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Note the bear locker<\/strong> in the photo above. Much easier than putting the food up in a tree!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I pitched my hammock lower and more securely because thunderstorms<\/strong> were predicted (and came) during the night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We visited the quarry, which is very impressive but hard to photograph through the trees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Etched Quarry Wall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I found another tiny orchid along the trail…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Coral Root Orchid<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We also saw some critters…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Common Loon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Garter Snake<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The next day started windy but it abated somewhat as we made our way back to port in Bayfield<\/strong>. We saw a traditional commercial fishing boat along the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lake Superior Herring Tug<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

[More Photos\u2026<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We recently went for a quick trip to Stockton Island in my friend’s new boat. Stockton has the huge advantage of partially sheltered bays with places to tie up the boat. [Full Gallery] We made an amphibious landing to offload our gear and then moored the boat about a mile away at the pier (seen … Continue reading “Apostle Islands 2021”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,268,27,16,14,10],"tags":[530,485,484,531,483,363,482],"class_list":["post-8936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-camping","category-critters","category-flowers","category-photography","category-travel","tag-apostle-islands","tag-common-loon","tag-garter-snake","tag-lake-superior","tag-marble-quarry","tag-panoramas","tag-wild-orchids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8936"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9842,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8936\/revisions\/9842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}