Kewaunee River, Ice Age Trail Connecting Route, 3/20/10

Mini Tunnel at Clyde's Hill

Kewaunee River looking North

Heading to Kewaunee, WI

Father Marquette Memorial Park

First off I need to say that it is hard to describe how MUCH easier it is to walk on a trail without it covered with snow and ice. So today the going was great. This is a really nice section of trail. Along the river the whole way. Need to come back out here with the dogs to let them run and play.

Details & Weather: Left house at 7:13, arrived Bruemmer County Park in Kewaunee at 8:33, hiking at 8:42, finished at 3:30 p.m. - 6.75 hours. Around 17 miles. Weather was cold and windy in the morning, cold, sunny and windy in the afternoon. The sun coming out was nice, but still had to wear gloves and hood almost the entire hike.

Wildlife: Crows (one flying with a stick for a nest); Geese; Mallards; Redheads; Wood ducks; some sort of cormorant looking bird; seagulls; Red Tailed hawk; blue jays; Cardinal; doves; chickadees; pileated woodpeckers; red winged blackbirds; pair of killdeer; robins; Chipmunk; Squirrels; a turkey; a Brown Trout that a fisherman had caught; horses; old mellow black lab; brown/gray tabby.

Noteworthy: The entire hike really. I would go back up there to walk that part of the trail again, very scenic and peaceful with river views the whole way. All of the ducks and geese in the river. The plaque about Father Marquette at the park in Kewaunee where he held a service back in 1674, for the U.S. that's very old history really. Eating lunch at the park with a view of Lake Michigan. Seeing the Arsenic contamination site, not good at all.

Danger & Deliverance Moment: Just walking by the Arsenic contamination site made me think hard about what in the hell were people thinking when they did that, but that site is really just one small sample of how bad it can be. Around Clyde Hill Road could hear people shooting guns/hunting about half a mile away, not so bad.