BAYFIELD TO THE RESCUE!

THE FERRY "BAYFIELD" FROZEN IN FOR THE WINTER...

...ALONG WITH FISHING TUGS

PROPOSED BAYFIELD TO LA POINTE DOG SLED RACE

WORKER FLOODING ICE ROAD APPROACH AT BAYFIELD

Thursday, 9:00 AM.  1 degree F on the back porch.  Wind SSW, calm with occasional moderate gusts.  The sky has a high overcast with a few lower, scattered clouds.  The humidity is 63% and the barometer is trending down, currently at 29.94".  Buddy and I walked our usual route this morning, the weather being  more reasonable, and I  over my bout with the flu.
   The ferry officially quit running yesterday.  I was alerted to that fact by Almanac reader and friend Doug Petersen, who lives in North Carolina.  He says he has been laid up by "the bug" and watching the internet a lot and noticed that the ferry was no longer appearing on the Bayfield Inn live web cam of the harbor.  What an era we live in!
   Doug suggests that the Islanders will have to get their beer by dogsled for a while.
   Therefore, in the spirit of the season just passed, I propose that Bayfieldians organize a dogsled rescue run to bring the Islanders their critical liquid needs, modeled on the famous Alaskan Iditerod dogsled mercy run of 1925, which delivered badly needed Diptheria sirum to Nome by dogsled.
   The annual Iditerod race is over six hundred miles long, as opposed to only about three from Bayfield to La Pointe over the ice, but the seriousness of the mission cannot be denied. And, an annual dogsled race to commemorate the mercy mission would likely draw thousands of cheering beer and dog lovers for many years to come. I would name it the Kegarod.  Sled dogs, hot dogs, beer.  Awesome.
   Bayfield to the rescue!