It has been said that wilderness without wildlife is mere scenery. Then, it is the moose and wolf that make Isle Royale more that just another pretty place.
Jeff Rennicke
A fog delay offers me another side or the island with thimbleberries, a sunset and an averted injury.
The trail heads up to a ridge before descending through thick brush where I meet a moose and a fox.
The walk to a view is fogged in, but Blissful is rewarded with thousands of dew-covered spider webs.
Carnelian beach is slow through overgrowth and wetland, then it's over Mount Desor to a lake.
The Minong Ridge meanders through dams, birches then to a stunning campsite facing Canada.
It's a short walk to the cove through lightening, thunder and a downpour.
Passing Chickenbone and Ritchie Lakes to Moskey, I'm attacked by leeches, then see otters at sunset.
The trail heads up to Mount Ojibwe then down into forest to a remote cove.
It's a rewind of the trail out of Lane Cove to Rock Harbor where the wind delays the plane.