Ice

Was out playing in the boat this afternoon and it was snowing.This is what we are pushing through in our aluminum boat,this sample of icewas taken in front of Dick and Linda Frazell's Island. The top 2" is quite solid and the bottom 7.5" is candled and very brittle, and goes good with the RUM. From our place to Frazell's its open water then 100yards of this ice and took about 10 minutes of back and forth to travel through,then open water to Bald Island(green day marker) took 30 minutes to get through the next 200 yards, then open water to N.W. corner of Queer. That's as far as we can get by boat,solid ice as far as you can see. Last night we dipped to -5c and made another 1/4" of ice. Still can not boat around our island. French Narrows and Dorian still ice bound but that is receding. We are probably just as anxious to get out of here as everyboby else is about getting back here,so will let you know when we make it out.