deaths door

The Blomgrens and Olsons departed on a ferry and challenged Death's Door on the tip of Door County.  Our fortune was excellent and we passed the Door twice without mishap. 

Lunch at a little burger joint and an afternoon on the rocky beaches of Schoolhouse beach was most excellent.

Description of School House Beach from yelp:

OK School house beach,on Washington harbor.The glacial polished lime stone stones are special! yes NO SAND! been tossing stones/skipping stones into the harbor for over 45 years,my kids have too! still every winter the winter storms push the smooth polished stones back on shore for the next season visitors!
Special  the crystal clear waters =gin clear, offer great snorkle/scuba dive area as the harbor sports several ship wrecks and several old town piers now under water but many artifacts can still be seen today! this area is great for a picnic, swim later year as waters warm up,photos,bath rooms on site.

Description of Death's Door from wisconsinshipwrecks.org:

Between a Rock and a Hard Place The legends surrounding Death's Door portray grim scenes worthy of the passage's name. They tell of a huge Indian war party pummeled to death against its rocky shores. They recount the last voyages of innumerable wooden ships pulverized by swirling currents and howling winds. But like a fierce squall that blurs the line between sea and sky, the potent legacy of Death's Door obscures the line between fact and fancy. Death's Door is the chief navigational passage between the Bay of Green Bay and Lake Michigan. It lies between the northeast end of Wisconsin's Door Peninsula and the rocky shores of Pilot, Plum, Detroit, and Washington islands. View a larger map of Death's Door. The precise origins of the passage's name remain shrouded in legend. One story recounts the destruction of a large Native American war party in a sudden storm. Early French and American travelers' accounts contain similar stories. However, these earliest written accounts mention nothing of a war party per se. They say only that "there were a hundred Indians dashed against these rocks and killed in a single storm" (an 1835 account), or that a band of Indians, travelling in canoes to a French trading post, were resting on a rock shelf in the Door when a sudden storm trapped and drowned them. A French document from 1728 refers to the passage as Cap a la Mort . Thus, any actual events that may have inspired the name must have occurred before 1728. One author contends that a frightful legend was concocted by the French to discourage English exploration. This French connection is reflected in modern charts that identify the passage as Porte des Morts.