Images from June 16-22, 2024
Isle Royale–Keweenaw Course
For your privacy, this page is only accessible by the link given to participants in this course, not linked to any other page on our website. These photos are for you — if you would like copies of any images (including ones without copyright notice, for your own uses), feel free to contact us. To view any image larger, click on the image.
We enjoyed putting this page together — brought back such good memories!
Sandhill Crane at Keweenaw Mountain Lodge
Keweenaw Peninsula Coach Tour -- Thermometer Billboard showing Snowfall Depth
Keweenaw Peninsula Coach Tour -- Holy Transfiguration Skete, Society of St. John Monastery -- Western Ukraine Byzantine design
Keweenaw Peninsula Coach Tour -- Jacobs Falls
Keweenaw Peninsula Coach Tour -- Lake Superior shore at Monastery
Keweenaw Peninsula Coach Tour -- Lake Superior Shore at Eagle Harbor Lighthouse
Keweenaw Peninsula Coach Tour -- Eagle Harbor Lighthouse
Keweenaw Peninsula Coach Tour -- trying to locate Isle Royale in the fog, from Brockway Mountain
Keweenaw Peninsula Coach Tour -- Brockway Mountain
Keweenaw Peninsula Coach Tour -- Indigo Bunting at Copper Harbor Overlook on Brockway Mountain
Keweenaw Peninsula Coach Tour -- Indigo Bunting (singing) at Copper Harbor Overlook on Brockway Mountain
Keweenaw Peninsula Coach Tour -- Copper Harbor Overlook on Brockway Mountain
Keweenaw Peninsula Coach Tour -- Living History at Fort Wilkins
Keweenaw Peninsula Coach Tour -- Living History at Fort Wilkins
Keweenaw Peninsula Coach Tour -- Wading in cold Lake Superior at Fort Wilkins State Park (photo by Kim Cho)
Keweenaw Peninsula Coach Tour -- Wading in cold Lake Superior at Fort Wilkins State Park
Keweenaw Peninsula Coach Tour -- Group Selfie while Wading in Lake Superior at Fort Wilkins State Park
Keweenaw Peninsula Coach Tour -- Dinner at Harbor Haus Restaurant in Copper Harbor
Keweenaw Peninsula Coach Tour -- Wait staff at Harbor Haus Restaurant in Copper Harbor dancing for Isle Royale Queen ferry as it returns from Isle Royale
Ready with Burritos for Breakfast, at Isle Royale Queen Ferry Dock
On board Isle Royale Queen Ferry to Isle Royale
Watching a cow and calf moose on a Tobin Harbor island, soon after arrival on Isle Royale
Watching a moose swimming from Raspberry Island -- Rock Harbor Lodge Guest House Deck
Morning Walk -- Snowshoe Hare, near Rock Harbor Lodge Housekeeping Cabins
Morning Walk -- Tobin Harbor
Morning Walk -- Watching Loons in Tobin Harbor
Hiking to Scoville Point
Hiking to Scoville Point
Sandhill Crane on Nest, near trail to Scoville Point
Two weeks later, our second group saw sandhill cranes in the same area, with two little ones.
Scoville Point Hike -- Tobin Harbor
Hiking to Scoville Point
Hiking to Scoville Point
Eagle Nest (with Eaglets), near Scoville Point
Approaching Scoville Point
Resting at the tip of Scoville Point
Dr. Rolf Peterson discussing Isle Royale Wolf-Moose Study, in Rock Harbor Lodge Guest House
Morning Walk -- Tobin Harbor
Hiking to Suzy's Cave
Approaching Suzy's Cave
Rest Break at Suzy's Cave
Suzy's Cave Hike -- Calypso Orchids
Suzy's Cave Hike -- Photographing Calypso Orchids
Suzy's Cave Hike -- Calypso Orchids
Suzy's Cave Hike -- Loons in Tobin Harbor, with two chicks (loonlings) riding on parent's back
Suzy's Cave Hike -- Bull Moose resting
Suzy's Cave Hike -- Trail marked to indicate there was a bull moose ahead, for hikers who followed
Lost her sole hiking on Isle Royale!
Hiking to Bangsund Cabin -- Wolf-Moose research station
Arrival at Bangsund Cabin -- Wolf-Moose research station
Antlered Skull Display at the Wolf-Moose research station
Trip Leaders at Rock Harbor Lighthouse (photo by Erin Borowski)
Exploring the shore and rockhunting at Rock Harbor Lighthouse
Middle Islands Passage Overlook at Rock Harbor Lighthouse
Middle Islands Passage Overlook at Rock Harbor Lighthouse
View from Rock Harbor Lodge near Sunset
Morning Walk -- Bull Moose
Watching a Cow and Calf Moose swimming across Snug Harbor, at Rock Harbor Lodge
Cow and Calf Moose, after swimming across Snug Harbor, at Rock Harbor Lodge
Cow and Calf Moose, after swimming across Snug Harbor, at Rock Harbor Lodge
Boardwalk through Raspberry Island Bog
Raspberry Island -- Hiking from the bog to Lake Superior outer shore
Raspberry Island -- Lake Superior outer shore
Morning Walk -- Tobin Harbor
On board Isle Royale Queen
Exhausted Trip Leaders, on board Isle Royale Queen, returning to Copper Harbor (photo by Erin Borowski)
On board Isle Royale Queen
On board Isle Royale Queen Ferry, on arrival in Copper Harbor -- Dancing the Can-Can as we pass Harbor Haus Restaurant, where the wait staff was dancing to greet our ferry
On board Isle Royale Queen Ferry, on arrival in Copper Harbor -- Dancing the Can-Can as we pass Harbor Haus Restaurant, where the wait staff was dancing to greet our ferry
Harbor Haus Restaurant Wait Staff waving as we danced the Can-Can for them
Feel free to contact us if you would like copies of any of these images.
Also, we hope you will help spread the word about our upcoming course —
participants are now signing up for the June 15-21, 2025 course.