Black's Cliff Birch Bark Blog

Excerpt: I took this picture yesterday and shared it on the Black's Cliff Facebook page. Most of my pictures get 200 to 300 views. For some reason this picture took off and was viewed by over 5600 people and 27 shares. I hope you enjoy it as much as everyone on Facebook yesterday. A warm November day to enjoy the... Read more

Excerpt: We have decided it is time after over 50 years to make a new dock at the beach. So it was time for the last time to take the old white dock out and haul it down to Hilltop to get it out of the lake. This has not been done in over 50 years... How do you get... Read more

Excerpt: It is late fall and the leaves have fallen and time to get some work done before winter Boats are slowly being piled up Coming home from college always means helping getting the storm windows on the house Filling the woodshed. They have worked all summer at pecking away at a pile of wood splitting it and now got... Read more

Excerpt: Beautiful sunrise on the lake Loon still hanging out in the mists ... Read more

Excerpt: The lake and the dock are definitely feeling like late fall. Slowly all the chairs are making it up the hill. Just a few left at the beach. Time to get the dock, slide and raft in soon. This might be the final time the white dock is taken out. There are plans for next spring and a new... Read more

Excerpt: It was a big day on Lower Kaubashine. Our lake association petitioned the DNR to stock our lake this year which they have not done for awhile. The DNR denied our request due to a lack of a public landing. Lower Kaubashine has several public accesses. All of them are walk in and one of them, the main one... Read more

Excerpt: The guys have been doing some work to our old shed. This shed is one of the last remaining original buildings of the resort. It has had a lot of tweaks and changes over its almost 100 years. It was originally built to house the model T cars that came to the resort. At one time it had a... Read more

Excerpt: Too many sad phone calls have come to me in the last month. Once again we say goodbye to a good one. Mr Tungett passed away this morning after a long battle. Mr Tungett and his wife Marilyn started coming to the resort back in 1963 with their kids Dave, Linda, Eleanor and Mike. Over the years they developed... Read more

Excerpt: Wondering about color? Yep we have it! The woods are coming alive with color this morning Mr Tungett's cabin, Wildflower. Some cabins just belong to certain people and Wildflower is his, along with a few others Color at the lake this morning Not sure I want to clean cabins today and would rather sit at the lake and take... Read more

Excerpt: It was a beautiful fall day and time for a wedding at the resort. We do not do many weddings due to not having the facilities to host large groups. George and Kelly asked last year and I told them as long as it was a small wedding we could pull it off and we did. Beautiful arch at... Read more

Excerpt: First for everyone that needs a pretty color shot of the lake. Here is the hill this morning. Our color is behind and still has not reached peak. Colors will hopefully be good still for the next couple of weeks Big welcome to Penny (aka Penelope), the newest in a long line of resort dogs to call Black's Cliff... Read more

Excerpt: The maples are starting to go on fire It is still not peak, just parts here and there. We have not been that cold so that has slowed down the color Wildflower looking peacefully at the lake More maples down by the water starting to turn In other news, Troy and Ben have been busy refilling the shed. Next... Read more