 
Another year vacationing on The Chip east of Hayward, Wisconsin. This year we found an absolutely great place to spend our week as we stayed at Kelsey's Musky Haven on the Crane Lake arm of the Chippewa Flowage hosted by Skip and Lynn Kelsey. Click on the photos to enlarge. The turnoff to Kelsey's (L) and our wonderful cabin (a house, really!) at Musky Haven (R). We found the Kelsey's by using Vacation Rentals By Owner and going to Wisconsin and then Hayward!
 
It was egg-laying season for the snapping turtles on The Chip. It seemed like every day there was a mama snapper digging a hole in our front yard (L) and then burying her eggs. We visit Al Capone's hideway which is on the SW corner of the Chippewa Flowage. In the right photo Deb Brungard (left front), her daughter Andrea Holm (our son's wife) and Ray Brungard at the hideway.
 
The Holm family (L) with son Nick (Andrea's husband), Bonnie and Vern. Right photo shows Al Capone's Wisconsin hideaway (Ray is at the right).
 
Another view of Al Capone's hideaway (L) and Bonnie with the biggest fish we caught all week. The weather on the Chippewa was fantastic the week we were there but the fishing was not! Our Lund Tyee with its trustworthy Johnson engine proved seaworthy for another year on the water.
 
Deb and Ray try fishing from our dock (L). That didn't work either! Bonnie always has to take a hundred loon pictures (R) while we are up north fishing! Thank goodness for digital photos or it would cost us a fortune in film for pictures of loons and eagles!
 
Deb wets here line on an absolutely windless day on Crane Lake (L). Bonnie spots a Blue Heron (R) on Crane Creek as we move the boat from Crane Lake into the main body of the Chippewa.
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