Black's Cliff Blog

Excerpt: 3 am came around and a lot of banging happened on our deck. I jumped out of bed ran to the window to see what obnoxious raccoon was paying us a visit. The visitor was a bit bigger, hairier and black. I tried to catch a pic of our visitor but my flash kept going off in the window... Read more

Excerpt: The Eastern end of the Black Family arrived to enjoy a week in the Northwoods. Dave and Bonnie spent the week introducing Ellanora to all sorts of new sights in the woods. They took a trip to The St Germain Flea Market on Monday returning with some yard art that will be turning heads in Washington DC. The St... Read more

Excerpt: We found some time to head up to Black River Harbor on Lake Superior. The Harbor is about an hour and 15 min or so from the resort. Head up to Ironwood take a quick stop at the coolest cheapest antique store in the Northwoods at Dan's Antiques, grab a quick lunch at Subway to take up to the... Read more

Excerpt: Troy noticed we were missing a boat for a few days. Most of the time when a green boat goes missing we get calls from neighbors as everyone knows a John Deer Green Boat belongs to the resort. Big Bertha has not been painted and no calls came in. It had wandered all the way to Bueana Vista on... Read more

Excerpt: Howard and Jean Berchtold arrived to enjoy their 34 summer at Black's Cliff. They started coming in 1977 and enjoyed many a canoe trip in the 70's with Trudy down the Tomahawk river with their kids. Now they come each July enjoying 2 weeks with their kids, grandkids and now great grand kids. Here in June they came up... Read more

Excerpt: That fresh country air can be detected through the resort right now. A great week of fishing by everyone in the resort has one result..... a dumpster full of fish. Troy has put bleach, vinegar, baking soda and now the last resort, tarping the dumpster trapping the Ode to Fish smell in the dumpster. This is 95 percent successful... Read more

Excerpt: Any ideas on what bird this is, Troy is not sure. Some type of warbler Close up of the mystery bird In other news, Birchwood was the winner of a King Bed upgrade. We managed to squeeze this King in the big bedroom along with the twin. A bit of space is missed in the bedroom but most folks... Read more

Excerpt: We had quite a storm blow through and afterwards an amazing rainbow appeared a complete on and a partial one, but I could not fit it all in my camera lens. There is a 2nd rainbow forming in front of the original bright one. Wish I had known there were rain drops on my lens while I was shooting... Read more

Excerpt: This is the only picture needed today to prove THE SUN IS FINALLY OUT! I believe the gloom set in June 5th or so and it has taken this long for the sun to return. Everyone will be soaking up some much needed vitamin D today For the fishermen out there I had this pic sent to me from... Read more

Excerpt: Blue sky was spotted for 30 seconds today Pontoon boat cleaned and ready to go. Question is will the new motor fly? Before the boat went down the road there was much discussion about Father's Day and what fun toy the 3 guys might need as a gift All I know is the most important word in Craig's language... Read more

Excerpt: Big Pontoon boat getting a good cleaning before launching this week The hold up has been locating, getting, and installing the new motor. Lets hope "The Good Deal" motor works well. Test run will be possibly tomorrow when it is launched. Ryden's Marine gave it a clean bill of health after a good carb clean. Maynard would be proud... Read more

Excerpt: Life been a little chaotic lately? Enjoy these quiet pics taken on Lower Kaubashine this evening. Beautiful calm night ... Read more

Excerpt: Hmm does this picture look familiar to a previous post. Weather rainy, overcast but folks still having fun regardless These two cousins were not letting 65 degrees and misty rain stop them from having fun. You know this is the type of day we could spend inside listing to the rain and taking a nap... but you wanted to... Read more

Excerpt: Mike Rose shared these pictures of the fish he caught this weekend. This is officially the world's ungliest muskie. I think it had been in a few fights and its face came out the looser. It was 39.5 and thrown back into Lower Kaubashine to keep scaring everyone with its ugly face Mike was thrilled to catch the biggest... Read more

Excerpt: We have a few openings left for summer. I did break up some of the weeks and have some nightly openings June 10 - 18th Blackwood 2bdr will break up nightly June 20 - 24th Birchwood 4 nights June 19 - June 24th Bayview 5 nights June 19 - 26th Kaubashine will break this up nightly as well July ... Read more

Excerpt: A few days of Norway being open and it got 1/2 of its new roof on. The rest will have to wait til fall. Craig happily admiring his work. While up on the roof he found an interesting message left from one of 3 characters under a few layers of old roofing... Bunger, Paul or Kevin... Our bets are... Read more

Excerpt: I caught the Johnson family having fun down at the lake this morning. After the rain of the last few days everyone was ready to hit the lake for some fun in the sun Kids trying to keep up with the paddleboat but Grandma had the lead in the row boat and was not giving it up easily While... Read more

Excerpt: Not much to report the last few days. It is raining and it has been a good soaking rain. Of course I just heard Craig left all his tools outside last night and one window was left down in the car. 5 red squirrels have found new homes in undisclosed locations 5 miles from my bedroom window. 5:30 am... Read more

Excerpt: Much needed rain has continued to come down. Most of the cabins checked in today for the first week of summer. Rain did not stop anyone from enjoying the evening Toughing it out grilling at Bayview nothing was stopping the grilling from happening I caught Tome and Molly walking between the rain drops. I have not met the new... Read more

Excerpt: 80 plus temps, sun and Memorial Day Weekend. Time for a swim Parents kicking back and watching kids having fun swimming What up north is all about... Read more