Since the Sunday game was a day game, I was able to return to town in the late afternoon and have a look about, so I went to explore the waterfront area, which opens out onto Lake Michigan. There's a large conservation area right on the lakefront, where they are attempting to replant the prairies and re-instate the marshes that were drained to create what is now the middle of Milwaukee.
There are some trails around the area that lead through the replanted prairies, and some lakes with other planting put around it, trying to recreate the habitats that were destroyed when the marshes were all drained in the past. I found a lot of large families of ducks on the lagoons, all preparing for the night.
Although the new prairie plantings are intended to be wild, they are going to try to manage it as best they can so that the area prospers. In some of the planted areas, they were trialling different methods of management: cutting it short, cutting it long, not cutting it, using pesticides, or doing nothing. There are lots of seats along the paths for people to just sit and watch and quite a few cyclists going along the paths too.
The harbour areas are all connected via a series of passages with decorative bridges over them. There are lots of expensive looking boats in the harbour areas too, and as day started to turn to twilight, the boats were coming back to the harbour, like the ducks! It was comfortably warm to walk about and see things. As I was walking about, the afternoon came to an end, with the transition to twilight and then darkness happening quite quickly.
There was a very impressive building in the style of a sailing ship at the end of Wisconsin Avenue, forming a bridge over the coast road to a large conference centre like facility on the water. There was a wedding reception in progress there on Sunday, too - everybody in Milwaukee must have been trying to get their weddings in before the end of the summer!
Since the Sunday game was a day game, I was able to return to town in the late afternoon and have a look about, so I went to explore the waterfront area, which opens out onto Lake Michigan. There's a large conservation area right on the lakefront, where they are attempting to replant the prairies and re-instate the marshes that were drained to create what is now the middle of Milwaukee.
There are some trails around the area that lead through the replanted prairies, and some lakes with other planting put around it, trying to recreate the habitats that were destroyed when the marshes were all drained in the past. I found a lot of large families of ducks on the lagoons, all preparing for the night.
Although the new prairie plantings are intended to be wild, they are going to try to manage it as best they can so that the area prospers. In some of the planted areas, they were trialling different methods of management: cutting it short, cutting it long, not cutting it, using pesticides, or doing nothing. There are lots of seats along the paths for people to just sit and watch and quite a few cyclists going along the paths too.
The harbour areas are all connected via a series of passages with decorative bridges over them. There are lots of expensive looking boats in the harbour areas too, and as day started to turn to twilight, the boats were coming back to the harbour, like the ducks! It was comfortably warm to walk about and see things. As I was walking about, the afternoon came to an end, with the transition to twilight and then darkness happening quite quickly.
There was a very impressive building in the style of a sailing ship at the end of Wisconsin Avenue, forming a bridge over the coast road to a large conference centre like facility on the water. There was a wedding reception in progress there on Sunday, too - everybody in Milwaukee must have been trying to get their weddings in before the end of the summer!
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