Basti, a three year old Labrador/ Collie mix, appears to be smiling as he swims back to shore with a stick at Barkers Island in Superior Tuesday afternoon, August 4. Basti and his owner, Anja Nienow, of Minocqua, were enjoying the afternoon in Superior. “He always looks like he’s smiling,” Nienow said of her dog. (Jed Carlson / jcarlson@superiortelegram.com)
Basti, a 3-year-old labrador/collie mix, got to make a pit stop in Superior Tuesday, Aug. 4, to play a little fetch in the Superior Bay.
Basti was joined by a few friends as they walked along the boardwalk on Barker's Island.
"He started whining when he saw the water as we drove through Ashland, so we figured we'd stop here," said Anja Nienow, of Minocqua, Basti's owner.
Basti, a labrador/collie mix, looks like a sea creature as he bounds into the Superior Bay on Barker's Island in Superior Tuesday, Aug. 4, as he chases after a stick. (Jed Carlson / jcarlson@superiortelegram.com)
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Basti, a labrador/collie mix, shakes off at the feet of his owner Anja Nienow, of Minocqua, after fetching a stick out of the Superior Bay on Barker's Island in Superior Tuesday, Aug. 4. (Jed Carlson / jcarlson@superiortelegram.com)
Anja Nienow, of Minocqua, throws a stick for her dog Basti, a 3- year-old Labrador/ Collie mix, into the Superior Bay on Barker's Island in Superior Tuesday, Aug. 4. (Jed Carlson / jcarlson@superiortelegram.com)
Basti, a labrador/collie mix, emerges from Superior Bay on Barker's Island with a stick Tuesday, Aug. 4, in Superior. (Jed Carlson / jcarlson@superiortelegram.com)
Jed Carlson joined the Superior Telegram in February 2001 as a photographer. He grew up in Willmar, Minnesota. He graduated from Ridgewater Community College in Willmar, then from Minnesota State Moorhead with a major in mass communications with an emphasis in photojournalism.
