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Little Dipper

Jeff Rennicke
Hundreds of paid subscribers

A small boat on a big lake and the search for a sense of place in Lake Superior’s Apostle Islands National Lakeshore.

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Deep Greens and Blues

Do we choose our favorite colors, or do they choose us?

The soundtrack of a summer’s day in the Apostle Islands is the music of color. Drift with your feet up on the gunnel, a beach towel slung over the transom to dry, and people of a cert...

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The Morning Smells Like Rain

Cut the engine. Let the Little Dipper drift like a cloud in the still waters of the channel between Basswood and Hermit. Let the silence seep back in like water rushing around a stone tossed in the waves. Listen: the soft “shhhhh” of distan...

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A Bolt from the Blue

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Being There

Some mornings, I am out of the boat and in the dark water, scrambling into some remote and unnamed cave still painted with shadows before the sun even clears the watery horizon. Sometimes, I am walking a beach as the sun comes up, decipheri...

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Islands of Light

Completely dark. Not even a hint of dawn in the sky beyond the bedroom window. Only the 2:55 am in big red block numerals on the nightstand clock. I roll over and try to summon, through the haze of sleep, the reasons I wanted to drag myself...

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  • Jeff Rennicke

    Once an award-winning travel writer, I now work to find depth and beauty in one chosen landscape: Lake Superior's Apostle Islands, aboard a small boat named the "Little Dipper." Join me on the journey.

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