Sunday, April 11, 2021

Short Boat Ride

 Yesterday was a beautiful sunny calm day, lowered boat pushed through a couple hundred feet of black candled ice ( sounds terrible the ice crunching on aluminum hull but it sure cleans bottom) through the Narrows but not much further, going to try posting a picture, I’m looking NW towards the day marker off Bald Island. Way off in distance. You can see green bouy #E27 in middle of the picture this is the location I thought I could reach. The ice in this area is 3 1/4” thick but still solid so it stopped me from going any further.

Laurenson lake was ice free April 10 and we are usually 7 plus days behind. A reminder that Lake level is 3” lower today than it was this time last year so be careful with short cuts ! No word on when bridge to Coney comes out or if Barepoint Marina is going to open.  Stay Safe


2 comments:

peter thiessen said...

nice picture ,,, and you can see my camp from there ,,, now hopefully northern harbour remains open ??? with all the lock downs happening ... thanks again and stay safe pt

Rick Jackson said...

I made it to Queer island yesterday, ice still 5.5” thick there, from the area around boat lift into Longbow and South to Hay island open water.
Open from Moore Bay lodge to Eagles Pass.