Door County

 

After leaving Muskallonge State Park we drove south and west towards Wisconsin. This is a picture of a swimmer statue leaping off of a rock in the river that separates Michigan from Wisconsin. This was a nice spot to stop, relax, and eat the rest of the pizza we got in Michigan yesterday. Wisconsin is shaped life a left hand. We proceeded to drive south along the shore of Lake Michigan down the pointer finger of Wisconsin. Green Bay is where the thumb of the hand branches off so there is we we turned north to travel up the thumb.

We camped in Fish Creek, Wisconsin at a state park called Peninsula State Park. This park had lots of trees and the camp sites had a lot of privacy compared to the one in Michigan. Oddly we had no mosquitoes, horse flies nor deer flies here but we did have some other bugs. See this dramatic black and red flying insect? I thought it was beautiful and Spanish looking.

This state park was much larger than Muskallonge State Park. We took several hiking trails including this one that went past.Eagle Bluff light house. We stopped along the shore to watch the waves come in and try to skip some rocks.

Peninsula Park has beautiful scenery. Despite being right in the town of Fish Creek we had no cell service. Many people brought or rented bicycles. Peninsula state park has an outdoor amphitheater. A performing group called Northern Sky Theater puts on regular outdoor performances here. This would have been a fun and unique camping experience but dogs are not allowed to attend the theater. 

In the afternoon before leaving we stopped at local winery for an expensive glass of red and white. Our waiter brought us bread sticks, a bowl of water for the dog and a dog bone. This plus a huge campfire seemed a fitting way to end our camping trip. The next morning we packed up in the rain. We drove across the palm of Wisconsin while listening to the soundtrack of Hamilton on Spotify. We made it back to Minneapolis before rush hour. Our camping trip was a success. We saw lots of new places, no one got hurt or sick, we ate all the food we brought, and made many new memories.