Harebells on the Rocks

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In July last year, I stopped along Rock Harbor and hopped out of my canoe at the bottom of a short cliff. A clutch of harebells was growin...

Welcome

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WELCOME to Captain Ben Kilpela's blog about Isle Royale National Park. Check out the SLIDE SHOWS linked in the right-hand column. Als...

2013 Schedule

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2013 ISLE ROYALE QUEEN IV Fares & Schedule Call 906-289-4437 to make a reservation. We have no online reservation system. CROSSING ...

Three Queens Published

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Did you hear? My new book is out and available by phone from the Harborside Gift Shop on the dock in Copper Harbor. Commemorating the 40th a...
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A September Visit to Isle Royale

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What a wonderful (though worrisomely dry) September it was across the Great lakes and up on Isle Royale. Things, of course, changed a lot mi...

A Tree Finds a Home

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Here's an interesting story -- being told on this sea stack that stands outside Rock Harbor along Laurel Lei Lane, the long, narrow cove...

Dock in Tobin Harbor

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Tobin Harbor, the Hidden Lake dock. This is the trailhead for the hike past Hidden Lake and Monument Rock up over the Greenstone Ridge to Lo...

Birches and Mists

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Before it got warm and summery this past week, the second of August, we were going through a strangely cool summer (strange for the 1990s an...

Loons at Work

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The weather has been a bit up and down lately up here on the shores of Lake Superior. It's very interesting that on the days Copper Harb...

Bat Island and Fog

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I got out to Bat Island the other day. It's almost directly across Rock Harbor from the Rock Harbor Lodge. Fog, which has this June been...
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A Local Moose Family

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I found that moose family. My luck is changing -- or at least it changed for one day. Right where my brother Captain Don had seen a moose co...

Fish Frying In the Pan

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Here's something a little different. This is a shot of a filet of Isle Royale lake trout in the frying pan back home in Copper Harbor. T...

A Hunt for Moose

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My brother, Captain Don, told me on Monday that he had seen a cow moose and two newborn calves, twins clearly, on the Scoville Point Trail o...
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Orchid In a Meadow

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During my first hike in the springtime this year at Isle Royale (last week, because spring comes so much later on the island than on the MI ...

Aspens in Bloom

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Lots of people love aspens in the fall., mostly for those gorgeous yellows that the aspen leaves turn, making such wonderfully golden photog...