THE KIYI VISITS BAYFIELD

THE KIYI...

...A UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY SHIP...

...CONDUCTS LAKE SUPERIOR FISHERIES RESEARCH...

...BASED IN ASHLAND, THE KIYI WAS DOCKED YESTERDAY IN BAYFIELD

Friday, 7:45 AM. 68 degrees F at the ferry dock, 63 on the back porch. Wind variable and calm with light gusts.  It is raining steadily, and the sky is overcast.  The humidity is 92%, the barometer is at 29.80" and relatively steady.  Rain is forecast for today and tomorrow, then clearing on Sunday, with a chance of rain again on Wednesday.

   Another large ship was docked in Bayfield yesterday.  The United States Geological Service fisheries research vessel, the KIYI, is based in neighboring Ashland but I had never seen it before.

   Commissioned in 2000, the KIYI is 107 feet in length and is equiped with a large boom and trawling nets.  It has a crew of three and can accommodate six researchers.  It operates primarily on Lake Superior in the Apostle Islands region, sampling and studying whitefish and lake trout populations.

   KIYI are a species of Lake Superior deep water whitefish.

OFF THE CUFF

   We watched a major policy address by Donald Trump yesterday.  It occurred in Raleigh, North Carolina.  Trump spoke, I thought, extremely well about the challenges the country faces, his policy solutions, and his desire to unite the nation as one people to solve its problems.  He was emotional but controlled, and his demeanor was decidedly presidential.  He was enthusiastically received by a very large crowd.

   I have seen little or nothing regarding the rally or his speech anywhere on the internet news, which has been overtaken with the story of the stupid misbehavior of four US Olympic swimmers (if they weren't robbed in the first place, they sure have been by now).
   I don't think the media would give Donald Trump substantive or fair coverage even if he descended from the heavens, accompanied by hosts of trumpeting angels.