(Photos by Mark) After my road trips to America’s national park areas, I am always asked “which was my favorite?” One stand-out on my list -- Apostle Islands National Lakeshore. It is a collective of 22 amazingly sculptured islands in Lake Superior along Wisconsin’s coast. According to the National Park Service (NPS) brochure, Apostle Islands is a “wild archipelago…formed by ice, wind and waves as a place to nourish life and renew the spirit.” Surrounded by the cold blue depth of Lake Superior, each island’s colorful sandstone bedrock layers can rise 50 feet above the water. Unrelenting waves – and time – dramatically carve fantastical formations. Once heavily logged, but now protected as a national park area, the islands’ forests of hemlock, white pine, birch, cedar, and sugar maple are nourished, renewed, and in significant recovery along with wildlife including predatory birds and black bear (who happen to be excellent swimmers). Cultural resources include historic s...