At 8:00 am this morning we could have boated over to East Allie Island,by 9:00 am she started to skim over. The overnight low was -16c and the winds dropped to West @5kms.It is now noon with a light dusting of snow on the fresh ice. The Bay between our Island and East Allie towards the Narrows is ice covered as well as from our Island South to the next Island. The large area South of us is still open water with lots of steam, zero visibility.The next 2 nights have lows of -18c good for making ice,but this weekend's forecast is for plus temps with chance of rain! This has been a very cloudy fall with lighter than normal winds so we have been running the generator on a regular basis.