• Friday-What'sUP January 21 - 05:59 am

Big Traverse has long been a port from where area commercial fishermen go out into the Big Lake for their daily catch and Melanie Hakala Rossi, captured some remnants of those days. That top photo is the rack that the fishermen wrap their nets around to dry them out and of course the second shot is an overturned boat, with Lake Superior waiting in the background. It doesn't look like either of those items have been used in a number of years.

Melanie next made her way closer to the shoreline, where she found sand and ice combined to make some interesting formations. They look like some sort of Lake Superior sand critters, that may have been washed ashore. Not to worry though, with all those icy legs they can hurry back to the water just fine.
You just never know what you'll find when you explore Superior's shores and it's usually different every time.

These pictures remind me of something you'd see on the East coast! Isn't it awesome to have that lake right in your own back yard? Great pictures!

Looks like sugar cookies coated with icing and a fudge-coastline. Willie Wonka would be proud.

Interesting and unusual sights, but way too much "icing" on the cookies!:p

What beautiful photos all week long. Just absolutely amazing each and everyone!!!

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It would be a shame if we were to loose this site along with so many others.

We have something exactly like that top photo (minus the beautiful lake in the back ground) in the middle of the woods on our property. Nate told me, once, that it was used to cut firewood.

Hilarie---What they used to cut wood was what I heard called a "buck". It was a stationary frame that had a v shaped part the log rested in. Todays photo is of a fishermans net drying device #don't know the name#. Those horizontal "blades" rotate like a paddle wheel. When the net were drying they could inspect and repair them.

Dickingrayling and Halwine: The X-shaped device used to support logs as they are cut into firewood was called a “Sawbuck.” Long ago, a ten-dollar bill had the nickname of being called a sawbuck, because the Roman numeral for 10 was an “X”, bearing a resemblance to a woodcutter’s sawbuck. Old $10 bills actually had “X’s” in the corners as well as the numeral 10.

That's interesting, Gary. I knew that $10. bills were called 'sawbucks' but never knew where the name came from. Guess even at 76 you're never too old to learn somethin' new! Thanks!:)