Fun on the Bay

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With so many parks on both the bay and lake sides, we needed to have another day of visiting a few of them. This time we opted to stay on the bay side. Our first stop of the day was Ellison Bluff State Natural Area. This is an out of the way location but was surprised again by number of people checking it out.

Most just come to the main viewing spot, get out of their cars and take a picture or two. Some do the additional work to go down the steps to a lower viewing platform. Since we had gotten a late start, we had our picnic lunch with another beautiful view over the water. That's two days in a row, if you're counting! It gave us plenty of time to observe the visitors come and go.

We ended up actually taking the trail from the lower platform into the woods with the main goal of finding a geocache. Supposedly this was a terrain one cache which is to indicate it would be handicap accessible. Pretty sure they don't make wheelchairs with the needed off road capabilities that this one would have required.

Next on the list was Door Bluff county park. This place had a great trail that followed along the edge of the bluff overlooking the water. Usually there were a few rows of trees between the trail and your view, but that almost made the glimpses you did get that much more enjoyable. At one or two locations, the trail was right next to the steep drop off with no obstructions. All in all, a wonderful hike.

View of Green Bay from Bluff

Next we headed back south to Peninsula State Park. As I was driving, Chris asked if I wanted to do an interesting sounding cache. Of course she knew the answer to that, so she navigated me to Anderson Store Museum in Ephraim WI. One of the buildings in this little area, is now an art gallery, but has something much more intriguing going one with it. The clapboard building is rather large and is covered in graffiti. Apparently people are actually encouraged to sign their names on the building! We had not planned on this, so we could only use our minuscule pen rather than paint and brush, but we still got our geocaching name and date in an open spot.

One Side of Building

Our Geocaching Name - rushrutter

By the time we got to the Peninsula State Park, it was getting close to dinner so our time there was kept short to appease our stomachs. Unfortunately the observation tower in this park was closed. Of course Chris claims she would have climbed to the top otherwise - hmmm, not sure I believe that! We did have to stop at the lighthouse but we could only check it out from outside since we were to late for the tours.

The Tower Not Climbed

Lighthouse

We headed into the quaint little town of Fish Creek, found a nice place for dinner and a couple beers. Since we wanted to watch the sunset at a little park aptly named Sunset Beach Park, we had a second round and then headed to the park. By the time the sun started to set, there were close to 75 people there! The clouds didn't cooperate for us this evening, so the pictures weren't the best, but it was still a nice atmosphere.

Mediocre Sunset at Sunset Beach

Blurred Wave Action