Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-09-08

< gotten past; of a great many things
which we have heard and read about
the ocean; and, although had never
seen salt water pefore, it seemed
| quite familiar to me in q certain
vague way as though sometime in
my past eXistance l had been there
before We arrived at New Port
: abOnt four o'clock, and as we had
about two hours before supper, we
started to take a ramble up the
) beach, and see the big waves rolling
i'll and like every one who rambles on
the sea shore, we went farther than
we intended; about four miles before
we thought of turning back. I was
very anxious to take my first plunge
in the surf, but as the pillows We're
rolling in to high, we had to wait
until the next day and take our dip
With the rest Of the crowd when the
tide was right. About three o'clock
the following day the crowd collect
ed Ground the government jetties
who wished to go in commenced put
ting on their bathing suits, of course
we got our suits on with the rest and
| started out to meet the breakers, /
| being Il novice at this surf bathing
was knocked under water by the first
by the first big wave that struck me.
! | began to notice then that some OF
the others who We're used to it,
would Jump up every time and let
the wave pass under them. While
the air was warm and pleasant, the
salt water seemed cold and pene-
| ira ting, and l was nearly frozen be-
fore | got up. y person always feels
! the water very chilly the first time in
but after that one doesn't notice it
much. What surprised me, there
We're quite q number OF ladies in the
swim, and they seemed to stand the
cold water much better than the men
and could remain in longer. The next
day we took IL stroll up the beach to
the government light house, and one
OF the keepers (who was Il very oblig-
| ing icllow) showed us all around and
up to the top OF the big reflector"
and explained to us all about the
coast along there, and where the
rock oysters could be found pie nty
when the tide was out. We spent the
afternoon coming back along the
beech picking up sea shells, and
ter agateS, ana other curiOsities
which are brought in with every tide
and looking at the star fish and sea
! lnemones, and other peculiar sea-
weeds and plants was he'd up on the
be cch by the waves. What wind
there is here seems to be constantly
| blowing from the west, but whether
there is any wind blowing or not, the
ocean is always very rough along the
shore, with the pillows rolling high.
! suppose it is due to the effect OF the
ocean currents which runs north
| along here. The room we sleep i'm
over-I0oks the bay, and we are lulled
! to sleep every nigh by the music of
the waves rolling in on the beach
| We are in tending TO make a trip to
seal rocks about nine miles down tho
coast from here, where the sea lions
| make their headquarters on a. ledge
| OF rocks ont Il distance from the
| the shore. They can be seen at any
| time out on those rocks ike a flock
J =
! heard for m any miles. We have al
ready gone part way down there and
| passed by the wreck of two vessels
ana the carcass Of Il sea- lion, that
were washed on shore. We were
foolish enough to run along the beech
| barefoOtcd like q couple of school
! boys and as a result got our feet ami
| ancl1les SO badly burned by the hot
sun and salt water, that we could
| hardly walk the next day. Wefound
Il Young SWerd here who took us out
in he bay with his boat and we had
good success fishing. We caught
| thirty five fish and five large crabs
! in three hours. The fish were found
ers, sea- bass and sea perh, which are
all very fine table fish. The crabs are
about the size of an ordinary mud
| futile and we had them cooked for
our supper. They were very nice. Bet
| ter think than the lobster. This was
my first experience in salt water fish
no and consider it good sport, es-
| ecially for person not being used top
t. For bait we used shrimps which are
/ about like our fresh water crabs, but
have to be dug out of the mud here.
| We anchored our boat in about thirty
| eet of water. and used medium sized
fish hook and line but had a sinker of
/ cad of about half pound in weight.