We started the day driving to LaClare Dairy Farm and Cheese Factory. We learned ALOT about goat milk and how cheese was made from the woman who started the farm with her husband. The we went to walk among the Sheboygan Indian mounds, and took some extra time to walk the sand dunes. After a stop for delicious Wisconsin ice cream we headed to the Manitowoc Marine Museum and our overnight stay onboard the USS Cobia submarine. The tour person was so kind. The sub did smell a lot like diesel. The spaces were small but the tour was interesting. Some of us chose to sleep on the sub overnight. It was a fun night and cool place to sleep, and surprisingly comfy.
-McKaylee and Charlie
Mr. Schneck's notes -
Our visit to LaClare Dairy and Goat farm was really interesting. Owner Clara Hedrich, a former teacher, and her husband bought a farm with two goats in the 80s and her family turned it into the premiere goat dairy in Wisconsin. It is still a family business, and Clara herself gave us a fantastic tour which included cheese tasting, and of course, goats to pet. She was quite a salesperson, as many of us ended up with goat cheese and other products to take with us.
After the dairy we made a quick stop at the Acuity Flag Pole - the tallest American flag pole in the world at 400 feet, with a flag 70 by 140 feet in size. You could see it from miles away, and standing at it's base was impressive, the stars being 3 feet across and the stripes 5 feet wide.
We then visited the Sheboygan Indian Mounds, which were burial and ceremonial mounds from about 700 A.D. in the shape of animals and unique patterns, and learned a little about their history. Then we took a detour to walk the dunes of Lake Michigan at Kohler-Andre State Park. A quick stop for ice cream and then on the the Manitowoc Maritime Museum. We rented the USS Cobia Submarine, WWII are ship, as an air b&b, which gave us all night to enjoy the museum after hours. Dan, our museum guide, gave us an incredible tour of the sub, going many places the "regular" visitors wouldn't have access to, and shared a great deal of history about the sub. After dinner at the local Fat Seagull we returned to enjoy the museum until late into the night. Dan took those brave enough the top of the sub (the conning tower and the "sail") and allowed us to operate (move, not shoot) the heavy guns. Some of the students and parents elected to sleep in the sub for the night, the girls in the main crew bunks and the boys in the aft torpedo room, in bunks right on top of the torpedoes. We had freedom to roam the sub and the museum on our own to enjoy the museum and woke to a beautiful Wisconsin sunrise on the river. What an experience!
P.S. The "goat locker" is the section of the sub where the petty officers sleep.
.jpg)
.jpg)
.heic)
No comments:
Post a Comment