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I found our pictures from our camping trip last May to Rock Island, WI. It's on Lake Michigan up near Green Bay, and you have to take 2 different ferries to get there. You drive your car across to Washington Island, then take a passenger only ferry to Rock Island. They don't even let bicycles across.

The lake was really cold. This was as deep as I could go in without freezing to death even though it looks like a beautiful, warm beach.

Our camp site was just down the way from the beach. Doesn't it look nice?

Spencer, however, got all the way in. Boy does he love water.

Look how far out he got! Crazy! That water was only about 50 degree (or less).

So Rock Island was owned by a guy that decided to build a Scandinavian-style hotel/recreation resort on the island for all of his friends. He never, finished it, but you can see the boathouse in the back. There was also a lighthouse on the island that is one of the oldest in Wisconsin, but we didn't take any pictures for some reason.

This is the interior of the boathouse. There was incredible detail in all the furniture and construction.

Here is a close up of the mantel with the Norse saying cared over it. No clue what it says. 

We sure have enjoyed camping all over Wisconsin. They have some pretty cool places. I will say, though, I can't fathom why people wanted to live on that island. It was so excluded and out of the way, not to mention chilly!