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