This week, we're on board with Gary W. Anderson, a sailor and friend, with a serious knack for adventure and an unforgettable story. We set our course to Lake Superior, the largest fresh water lake in the world, where Gary and his crew find themselves stranded on Cat Island, with nothing but their resourcefulness and a sense of camaraderie to navigate through the challenges. Prepare for a tale that's adventurous, frightening and entirely captivating.
Our journey begins with the crew playing beach bocce under hot afternoon sun and enjoying an afternoon of sailing in the beautiful Apostle Islands. The next day, the evening beach party ends with a daunting reality that the dinghy has floated away from the beach. The crew finds themselves marooned on the island through the night with their sailboat anchored 200 yards away. Darkness and damp cold overcomes the crew. It's time for the skipper to lead some serious problem-solving.
Hear about the ingenious way the crew constructed a makeshift raft using logs tied with shoelaces, drawstrings, one belt, and a canvas bag. Facing cold waters and uncertainty, the crew perseveres and eventually makes it back to the sailboat via a creatively designed ferry line. Stay with us as we navigate through this challenging adventure, and discover the power of resourcefulness and camaraderie in the face of adversity.
This week, we're on board with Gary W. Anderson, a sailor and friend, with a serious knack for adventure and an unforgettable story. We set our course to Lake Superior, the largest fresh water lake in the world, where Gary and his crew find themselves stranded on Cat Island, with nothing but their resourcefulness and a sense of camaraderie to navigate through the challenges. Prepare for a tale that's adventurous, frightening and entirely captivating.
Our journey begins with the crew playing beach bocce under hot afternoon sun and enjoying an afternoon of sailing in the beautiful Apostle Islands. The next day, the evening beach party ends with a daunting reality that the dinghy has floated away from the beach. The crew finds themselves marooned on the island through the night with their sailboat anchored 200 yards away. Darkness and damp cold overcomes the crew. It's time for the skipper to lead some serious problem-solving.
Hear about the ingenious way the crew constructed a makeshift raft using logs tied with shoelaces, drawstrings, one belt, and a canvas bag. Facing cold waters and uncertainty, the crew perseveres and eventually makes it back to the sailboat via a creatively designed ferry line. Stay with us as we navigate through this challenging adventure, and discover the power of resourcefulness and camaraderie in the face of adversity.
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Mark Wolak:
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Joe Boyle:
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Mark Wolak:
Today you're going to hear a remarkable story that happened on Lake Superior. Lake Superior is the largest fresh body of water in the world by surface 160 miles by 350 miles, a size similar to the state of South Carolina. The temperature of the lake is very cold. In the summer. The average temperature on the surface in the middle of the lake is 45 to 50 degrees Fahrenheit. It is a very deep body of water with depths up to 1300 feet. It has a wonderful history, generations of Native Americans living in this area, and it's a major recreation area for many people. Today it has over 200 islands, the largest of which is Isle Royale. Isle Royale is a nationally protected park.
Mark Wolak:
There have been many great books written about Lake Superior, its history and its resources, including Isle Royale. Today we welcome my friend and fellow sailor, Gary Anderson. We join him now telling his story about solving a major dilemma. He and his fellow sailors became stranded on an island. This is his story of how this happened and what the crew did to solve the dilemma. I think you will really enjoy this story.
Gary Anderson:
It was really a warm day, unusually warm, and we had Southwest winds that were blowing. Temperature continued to climb up, and so we dropped anchor on the sands bit of Outer Island and we decided to dinghy in to shore. Now somebody that's not familiar with sailing to these islands you can't run a sailboat right up to the shore because of the keel on the boat, so you have to anchor offshore a ways.
Joe Boyle:
You hit rocks or get stuck or something. If you tried doing that, that's right.
Gary Anderson:
Break the boat. Most of the boats in the charter fleet have dinghys, like a tender, that you could take and climb in to and row in to shore. Our boat, Clarabelle, had an inflatable dingy but we could all fit in into it. And so we all got into this dinghy and rowed ashore. And it was mid afternoon, beautiful day, clear skies, warm.
Gary Anderson:
We're walking around the sand spit, which is beautiful driftwood, rocks, different things you'd spot and we decided to play a game of beach bocce. Perhaps some of you guys are familiar with beach bocce out there, but you throw a lead rock and each team tries to throw a rock as close to that target rock as possible. So we had a lot of fun playing that game. One of the crew members happened to come across a rock that had a hole right through the center of the rock and it was a good size rock, it was probably four inches wide. Picked that rock up and brought it back to the boat and we anchored there.
Gary Anderson:
We stayed there that night and then the next day we had such a fun time hiking around the island. We said, well, we'll come back to this anchor anchorage again. We'll just sail around the entire island over the course of the next day and come back to the same anchorage. So that was the plan for the next day, which was now the third day out from the port where we began, and it was another beautiful day Got going probably about 10 o'clock in the morning. That's one of the nice things about sailing is that you're not in a hurry to get going in the morning. Why? Because the wind hasn't come up yet. You know you can have a leisurely start to the day of a cup of coffee, maybe some blueberry muffins, all fun stuff to do.
Joe Boyle:
Means, you can have more fun the night before too.
Gary Anderson:
There you go, you're right. So we began that counterclockwise path around Outer Island. But the winds had started to shift. I knew right away that where we had anchored the night before was not going to work, and so we decided to head over to Cat Island, and Cat Island is to the west of Outer Island. It's about seven, eight miles away, could easily make that over there, and so our intentions were. We'll anchor at that island. I had never anchored there before, but I had checked some resources. There's a famous author that's written all about Lake Superior and has good information on anchorages.
Mark Wolak:
Superior Way by Bonnie Dahl. Yes.
Gary Anderson:
Could study that anchorage from her writings and find out. Okay, that's a good anchorage.
Joe Boyle:
Was it in a bay or?
Gary Anderson:
Yes, it was in a bay off of the northeast end of Cat Island. You don't often anchor there because the weather has to be just perfect in order to anchor in that bay, because it faces the open lake and so you have nothing to protect you. If the wind is going to switch over to the northeast, it'll blow right into that bay Tens of miles of open water which can bring in lots of lots of waves and lots of wind, you see nothing out there, that's right.
Mark Wolak:
Yeah, it's really incredible.
Gary Anderson:
Just a fact for the listeners is that if you're on the open water where the earth curves, you can only see two and a half miles before you lose the horizon at the water level. Now if there's an obstacle higher than that you can obviously see further, but that's how quickly the horizon drops off. So it's really quite interesting to see that span of water out in front of you. So we anchored there, we had dinner. Oftentimes we'll go to local fishery and pick up anything from whitefish to lake trout. We got done with dinner and the beach is just beautiful. There's sand beach. We know that this island is uninhabited and we're about 200 yards offshore anchored, and so again we jump into our dinghy. But before we do we said you know, let's go have a beach fire. Oh, by the way, let's bring along some fixings for some, some cocktails.
Gary Anderson:
Maybe, maybe some gin tonics? Yeah, sounds wonderful. Sounds good on a hot July night. Yes, so that's what we did. We brought a canvas tote of the cocktail fixings and threw that into the dinghy, along with all four of us, and we made our way to Cat Island Beach. It was a calm night. There's not a ripple on the lake, which is really quite rare to see.
Gary Anderson:
That because we're going into shore, we left the anchor light on on our sailing boat, and what that means is you, of course, you still have to run an anchor light so that other boats, if they approach in the darkness, could see where your boat is. So we we got to shore, throw the life jackets that we all had on into the dinghy, pulled our dinghy up onto shore and we proceeded according to our plan.
Mark Wolak:
Build a fire.
Gary Anderson:
Build a fire and have a little party on the beach. That's right, and so we did that. So we're enjoying our cocktails and becoming dark and the first stars are beginning to shine, and so that's beautiful, and if any of you have been out on open water and you can see the stars at night and how they hang around you like a sphere, right down to water like a dome. Right, that's what it's like.
Mark Wolak:
And the Milky Way is brilliant.
Gary Anderson:
It's so dark up on the lake and so you really see the stars, and so that was pretty incredible. Only that is when some Northern Lights started. Oh my gosh. It was incredible, these Northern Lights. It's rare but it happened to be one of those nights. They were in color, Divided colors that were appearing. It was just extraordinary.
Joe Boyle:
That can make the trip by itself right there.
Gary Anderson:
Right there. Absolutely, I wish it had ended right there, but we were enjoying ourselves. We ran out of our cocktail mix and so we were thinking, you know, probably should be heading back pretty soon, back to the boat for a good night's sleep. Off to the east, I spotted a freighter coming by and you see those occasionally there. It was out, probably a mile from where we were at. You could see its navigation lights on and it was heading towards the east or making its way to Duluth. I thought, well, that's pretty interesting.
Gary Anderson:
Here we even have stars, Northern Lights and now a freighter going by. As the freighter kind of leaves our line of vision to the left, here comes another freighter right behind the first one, to our right convoy. A convoy. Yes, we've never seen a convoy of these freighters moving in, and they're pushing a lot of water.
Mark Wolak:
You know, for people they're maybe 500 feet, 700 feet, 1,000 feet long and they're moving fast.
Gary Anderson:
You're probably faster than your sailboat. Oh, probably 10 to 20 knots.
Mark Wolak:
Hauling coal, ore or sometimes, wheat, grains, and it's an international port, so they're from all over the world.
Gary Anderson:
Sometimes the term "salties" is applied to these. Freighters are called salties because they are out in the ocean waters. Well, behind the second freighter, low and behold, here's a third one. None of us had ever seen that before.
Gary Anderson:
We're three in a row in a convoy making its way east. It's dark out, but we could see their their nav lights on. Well, that's quite the sight. Well, we decided to get back to our boat and, but just about that time, we started hearing this wave washing up on the shore, and what that was was the wake from the first freighter that had gone by.
Mark Wolak:
It's such a beautiful sound, you know it comes rippling up along in a long shoreline here out there, coming in a long way.
Gary Anderson:
So that wave comes all the way in. So we we guess wow, you know, that's from that first freighter. And then we speculate are we gonna have a second and a third? So we kind of wait for that and sure enough, here comes a second and third wake wave. It comes crashing up on the shoreline. We thought, well, I guess the show is over now we can head back to the boat. And we start doing that about that time. We kick out the fire, we douse it was sand makes certain that it's out and we head back to the beach, to our dinghy. Low and behold, our dinghy is gone.
Mark Wolak:
Wow, well, what was that all about? Whoa, stranded we were. So tell us a little bit now about what did that mean for you guys.
Gary Anderson:
So we decided, you know we're gonna have to find that dinghy, because there's no way we can get back out to our sailing vessel without the dinghy. It's 200 yards out and while we had some good swimmers, that lake temperature waters, you know, barely above 40 degrees. If you attempted that and you couldn't swim all the way there, there's nobody there to rescue you.
Gary Anderson:
So we sent search parties to comb the beach either way, thinking well, maybe the dinghy bounced down with this wake wave, that's what we guess brought these. Brought the dinghy out, reported back. No, no sight of it. We really came to the realization we are stranded on this island. Yeah, it's dark. It's approaching midnight now.
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Mark Wolak:
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Joe Boyle:
Okay, so all four of you are on shore. You know your dinghy's not around. It's not a joke. Did anybody volunteer to swim to the boat or anything there?
Gary Anderson:
Yeah, we had, actually, Charlie, who had dove into the lake earlier and is an accomplished swimmer. He volunteered. Well, I could swim out to that boat. You know, as I thought about that, you know, I thought that that was kind of a reckless decision on his part to just forge ahead and consider doing that, because I wanted the whole crew to talk about this, be part of a solution here and to think about consequences.
Gary Anderson:
Well, if Charlie swims out, what if he got into trouble on his swim? It's, I mean, the water is black, right, right, you could, you, you could see. You could see the sailing vessel out there, because the anchor light was on. And again, it's about 200 yards offshore in cold water. I said, well, before we jump to that conclusion, let's at least agree that we ought to wait until it's daylight, until we have some visibility here, so we can see what's going on. And the crew bought into that. They thought that was a good decision. We began kicking around some ideas around how could we get out to the vessel. And the idea of a raft surfaced early as well. I had my sailing knife along. I always carry that. Charlie wanted to borrow that and go start cutting some saplings Now it's dark out right.
Mark Wolak:
It's like midnight, something like that. It's very dark, it's late.
Gary Anderson:
It's pitch dark. Well, I think he's anxious around this, and he later admitted that he thought that there was actually someone else on the island that intended to do us harm.
Joe Boyle:
So that was a little paranoia speaking. There was some paranoia there, because you guys, are out in the middle of nowhere, the chances of somebody else being there would be pretty small, right?
Gary Anderson:
Right, right. So he, he headed off on his own. I asked the crew to get the fire going again, because the temperature is dropping and so you have that. Cold lake water acts like a huge air conditioner. Probably got down into the high forties, maybe low fifties at night, and we weren't dressed for overnight. No, you guys are dressed for a party. We were Right Right. I had my swim trunks on and I had a light sweat suit outfit on over that.
Gary Anderson:
And the other crew members were similarly dressed, and so we got the fire going and I said we'll, we'll figure this out, but let's wait till daylight.
Mark Wolak:
So daylight probably what four, four-thirty AM, maybe at the earliest when you could really see.
Gary Anderson:
Wells, probably about that time, several of us just kind of hung around the fire shivering, even though you're close to it and we're burning driftwood which is so dry that it crackles and kicks out embers. I I was felt like dozing off, so I did but a woke at at one point, with a burning ember on my leg, burning right through my sweats. So that was interesting and each crew member kind of was going through their own thoughts and realization that hey, we're stranded out here, what are we going to do?
Mark Wolak:
And this was an age when nobody brought their cell phones to the beach. You had a radio on the ship, on your sailboat. You could call for help if you were on the sailboat, but most likely there was not going to be a rescue.
Gary Anderson:
Right.
Mark Wolak:
You had to figure this out on your own. I mean, the Coast Guard is shut down. They shut down at 7 PM. They have an emergency person, they have an emergency number, but y ou have to have a radio.
Gary Anderson:
Right, which we did not have. We had a fire going which can serve as some kind of signaling device, but there's no other vessels around. We never saw one that evening other than the freighters had caused all of this. One of the crew members was taking some meds for a stomach ailment, caused him a lot of anxiety, and so he kept feeding the fire for something to do, which increased all the sparks. Embers flying off from that. Charlie came back and reported that no, the sapling idea wasn't going to work at all. They couldn't find any in the darkness to cut.
Mark Wolak:
And a pocket knife to cut them with right?
Gary Anderson:
Just a pocket knife, my sailing knife. Right and the other crew member, Mark. He was starting to get drowsy.
Joe Boyle:
Any finger pointing going on at this time or anger by anyone.
Gary Anderson:
No, not really anger, but I think that there was some fright. What's going to happen?
Joe Boyle:
That's a long time to sit and think about ramifications.
Gary Anderson:
Right, and the sand was so cold. You know, you were sitting on on the beach at nighttime.
Mark Wolak:
Cold and damp.
Gary Anderson:
Right, we start seeing some daylight and by this time Charlie, who had kept moving around, started dragging up some drift logs. They were larger logs. Eventually we had four of them. So this idea of building a raft evolved. We had four logs. Well then, what are we going to do with four logs? So we started thinking well, we've got shoelaces on some of our shoes and we've got drawstrings around sweats or hoodies or belts, and so we started collecting all of those items to use as a means to tie this raft together, lash it together. We even pulled that canvas bag over the bow end of this raft to kind of act and keep the front of the bow together. So we got that all accomplished.
Mark Wolak:
So what time did you start doing that? Do you remember?
Gary Anderson:
Roughly it's probably about 4 30.
Mark Wolak:
4 30 in the morning, starting to become dawn.
Joe Boyle:
Yes.
Mark Wolak:
And the crew needed something to do.
Gary Anderson:
I mean spent the night laying on the beach by the fire and all this time you can see that, you know that that ship out there, our sailing vessel, is warm and comforting and we're shivering here in this island. Anyways, we got this raft kind of put together and now the decision comes. Well, what do we do with it? And we know by the size of this thing, it can only hold one person.
Mark Wolak:
Yeah, it's not the Kon Tiki. You know that kind of story.
Gary Anderson:
Again, we didn't have any life jackets. I elected myself after thinking through. You know who could go out there. I'm a good swimmer acting as captain, so it's my responsibility to put myself at danger before my crew members, you're the skipper, and you knew what to do once you got there too.
Gary Anderson:
You know right, you know, once we got to the ship, then what? Then? What are we going to do? Right, the other crew members helped me shove off on this raft at probably about 4:30, quarter to five in the morning, and I had to keep my legs in the water in order to help stabilize the raft. Charlie had handed me a club that I think he was using for self protection as my paddle makeshift paddle yeah makeshift paddle and I paddled out to the ship and boarded, immediately, changed into some warmer clothes.
Gary Anderson:
We had talked about the strategy. Well, once I'm there, what am I going to do? There's a process of in running the ship of ground to bring it in closer that I plan to do and then, prior to doing that, I would set a stern anchor out and then play that out as I proceeded to motor in to ground the vessel off. That process is called kedging, and what you then can do is you've got an anchor you can pull backwards out of the sand, because I was going to run this thing into the sand bottom and I didn't want to be stuck there.
Mark Wolak:
Yeah, that was good thinking.
Gary Anderson:
I did that, and then the next phase of the survival story was that somebody remembered that rock that we had found the day before with a hole through it.
Mark Wolak:
I was wondering about that, what the significance of that rock was.
Gary Anderson:
So I found that rock on board. Our boat, tied a light line to it, went topside, hung onto the one end of the this long line, and I swung this rock around and around in a circular motion, David and Goliath, David and Goliath kind of throwing this I think that's called a bolas line and through this rock to shore. Well, the first attempt was ridiculous. It didn't go very far. I needed to practice. The second throw was much better, but still insufficient. So on my third try I was able to heave that rock and I got it within probably 10 yards of the beach. One of the crew members waited out to retrieve it and so now we had a line that went, and I'm about 75 yards from shore on the boat at this point.
Gary Anderson:
And still that water is so cold you do not want to be in it for more than a few seconds. Its that we had to figure out. What are we going to do now? So I tied a heavier line onto this light line and transferred that longer line to shore and tied its bitter end onto the raft and we're able to pull that raft back to shore. And I had another line attached the stern end of that raft and we're able to move that raft back and forth like a ferry.
Joe Boyle:
Created a shuttle. Yeah.
Gary Anderson:
And we had all the crew member back on board by six am on the boat, all safe.
Joe Boyle:
Good work.
Gary Anderson:
Yeah, I was overjoyed that we're all back on board. I immediately ordered a round of Bloody Mary's to celebrate.
Joe Boyle:
Good thinking.
Gary Anderson:
This accomplishment in every crew member was ecstatic that they were on the boat too, absolutely. So now became the question can we back off from here, because we are a ground.
Mark Wolak:
In sand.
Gary Anderson:
It was a sandy bottom, so the kedging idea worked perfectly, along with some motor assistance, and we're able to back off back into deep water and be able to again start moving.
Mark Wolak:
Did you ever find the dinghy?
Gary Anderson:
Well, that was the next challenge.
Mark Wolak:
Aha, skipper had another challenge for the crew.
Gary Anderson:
Because this was a charter vessel, I would be responsible for any lost items off from this boat I would have had to replace that I would have had to replace this dinghy.
Joe Boyle:
Well, if you owned the vessel, you'd have to replace it anyway.
Gary Anderson:
You're right, you're right.
Mark Wolak:
It's kind of essential. You need one of those, as we've learned from this story just how essential it is.
Gary Anderson:
Right, you know how am I going to find this dinghy? And we're guessing that the winds had come up, which they had in the morning. That's the main worry I had the longer we stayed on this island, because if the wind activity moved to be an adverse wind item for us, we could still be there on the island.
Mark Wolak:
Yeah, you can't swim against the waves or against the wind very comfortably on a log that's tied together with string.
Gary Anderson:
Yeah, they're moving around. They're barely buoyant to keep you out of the water, you're wet. As the wind did come up, it must have carried the raft. This based on the wind direction crew, and myself surmised that it headed in in a particular direction, and so we proceeded in that direction.
Joe Boyle:
What color was the dinghy?
Gary Anderson:
It was a gray, gray in color.
Joe Boyle:
Maybe not the most easy thing to see out there.
Gary Anderson:
Right, no, absolutely. And to really encourage spotters looking for this, I put $100 finders fee first person to spot this raft.
Joe Boyle:
Made it a game.
Gary Anderson:
That's right. Yeah, I was really surprised that we didn't see it for the longest time, as we were kind of making way and this involves some turning on our boat, guessing based on wind activity, and we just lucked out that eventually we found the dinghy brushed up against some rocks. Now, on another island, we're going to have to anchor again because we don't have a dinghy and we're going to have to create another raft in order to go retrieve it, and this time we did not bring along our initial raft to tow that, and open water just does not make sense, right? So we had cut that free and we got to where we were, within no 150 yards of the of this dinghy, in a rocky bottom anchored. And then we fashioned a new raft out of boat fenders. A boat fender is a cylinder and acts as a cushion that you often hang on the side of your boats when you're docking.
Joe Boyle:
Probably like a bigger version of the ones they use on pontoons and docks.
Gary Anderson:
Yes, again, I decided I would be the one that would take and do this. We've tied these two fenders together, and they're kind of like a jet pack almost, except we would wear it. I wore it on the front side of me to help keep my body up out of the water. I did have a life jacket on this time, though, which was comforting to me to know I'd be buoyant and at least my body would be floating if somebody had to come after me. I swam, just kicking against these fenders, and made it to the raft, and inside the raft were all our life jackets, the two oars. The raft was safe and sound.
Mark Wolak:
I think, if I remember this, you told me that it moved like seven or eight miles in the night.
Joe Boyle:
Yes, that's a long way.
Mark Wolak:
Yes, isn't that amazing? That's amazing. You know when I think about that story, Gary. Great problem solving, great teamwork, you know, keeping people organized around the goal.
Mark Wolak:
Lots of luck in finding that dingy. Great, great luck, but also, you know, being really conscious of safety, I think. There's a study out of the University of Toronto; Lake Superior water is so cold that if you fall in, you have a minute to decide what you're going to do to keep your breathing to the best of your ability. 10 minutes to make a decision about what you're going to do, and an hour and pretty much hypothermia takes over. So it's the one-ten- one plan. A minute to get your wits about you. 10 minutes to do what you're going to do in an hour to survive in that lake.
Gary Anderson:
Right you know it's a team thinking of coming together because everybody had different ideas around how to approach us and and what ultimately work with the idea that we do not want to drown in here. We want to get back to the mainland or at least back on the boat. We had a radio there that we could make a call.
Joe Boyle:
Did you continue with your four day trip or did it? Somebody want to go home?
Gary Anderson:
I think we were all pretty well tired out of this trip and it was our fourth day out as planned, and so we made our way back to port. It's been an important story to tell people ever since, because when you get in those survival situations, thinking through how to do that and having this internal strength to follow it through instead of just saying I give up, yeah and giving up up there, especially since you did not have cell phones or cell phone coverage.
Mark Wolak:
Giving up would have been chaos, People would have wandered off and who knows how that would have ended. It's a great story of keeping that team together and doing some great problem solving.
Joe Boyle:
Great ending, great ending.
Gary Anderson:
Great ending.
Mark Wolak:
Well, thanks, Gary, appreciate you being here to share that story today, and we'll look forward to hearing back from our listeners about what they think about it and any other story that you might want to share in the future and bring along to us.
Joe Boyle:
Pleasure having you on Gary.
Gary Anderson:
That's a fun story to recall. Thanks, guys.
Mark Wolak:
Well, that was a great show, Joe. I've known Gary a long time. That's a great story of the kinds of skills that he's brought to our relationship over the years.
Joe Boyle:
Yeah, my takeaway, I think, was that you know, on one hand he's obviously an adventurer, he loves to take calculated risks and that sort of thing. He also is a very methodical thinker. He takes advantage of his knowledge and is very methodical in his decision making. That helped the four guys get out of that tight situation.
Mark Wolak:
Yes, and for our listeners, I was on that sail. I was a young sailor with not a lot of experience. Gary really stepped up and carried the water on that one, getting us off the island and back home.
Joe Boyle:
He was a good skipper right down to ordering up those that round of Bloody Mary's.
Mark Wolak:
I'm not sure who had to mix those, but yes, they certainly listened to the skipper. Also listeners, we mentioned a book early on written by Grace Lee Nute called Lake Superior. It's a really fantastic story of early decades and centuries on Lake Superior. We also mentioned the Superior Way, written by Ron and Bonnie Dahl, two teachers from Rice Lake, Wisconsin. And then we had a poem from Kenneth Graham and music from Hans Zimmer, the music from Dune, called Stranded. Thanks for listening. That was great.
Joe Boyle:
Thanks a lot. We hope you enjoyed this episode. Please join us again next time on Stories in Life on the radio with Mark and Joe, and visit our website at storiesinlife. buzzsprout. com. That's storiesinlife. buzzsprout. com