It was a beautiful day out here today,sunny,-19c,light N breeze. We went by snowmobile to visit friends @ Moore Bay Lodge. There are 6 pressure ridges to navigate around between our place and there's,following the same route the ice roads would take. We were only gone 2.5 hrs and in that time wolves took down a deer at French Narrows Portage.Talked with Lunny's last night and they were going to walk out to Scotties Island from BarePoint today,the least amount of ice they found was 3.5". Our supplies (beer/rum)are holding strong still no need to head to town.Its 3 weeks today since we were last in town by boat.This freeze up seemed to drag on this year,blaming the lack of sun shine? If anyone reading this is planning on going to there camps soon please check your ice conditions on your route,As of yesterday I found 9" to be thickest and 3" @ least.

Yesterday I ventured to the narrows by quad,from our Island I crossed channel to East Allie and followed the shoreline around the point. Have to keep at least 2 tires on shore as there are open patches and ice is thin.When the Red and Green Bouys froze in they were on a 45 degree angle from the North wind,last mild spell they opened up and are now floating. I have seen snowmobile tracks through this area but I would never travel there! The rest of the area freezes early because we are sheltered and shallow. It also stays open in front of the old Lodge till later in season.Last night 22:00 we had freezing rain again! Everything coated in ice again.Rec,d a report from BarePoint area and sounds like more open water than ice!

Sun was out for a few hours today,first time in a long time. The 6" block of ice I cut from North side of Island-it froze up Nov 24th. The 4.25" block was from South side of Island-this area froze Nov 28th.A friend from Welcome Channel area called this morning to say the Manitou froze overnight-he could not see any open water! Bigstone is still open water.Hard to tell but could still be open around Bunn Island. There is no snow on the ice,The rain over the weekend melted the little bit we had,since then we have had a dusting but winds have blown this to shorelines.

Well here we are on Dec.03 with a temp. of plus 5c !! Its raining,all snow has melted off the ice and grass is showing. On Nov 24th the North side of Island froze we have 4.5" ice. On Nov.29th The South side froze and we now have 3" there.Reports that Manitou and Bigstone are still open. In fact we heard you could launch a boat at Bare Point Marina,only ice is around the docks!!Also had a picture sent to us showing open water between Bare Point and Lunny,s Island.I had expected to make a trip to town this week but with all these mild temps will be lucky if its next week!Have not seen the sun since Nov.21 and not much in the way of wind power.

Winds dropped during the night and the last of the open water froze.There was a dusting of snow on the fresh ice so its a sea of white.

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.

Yesterdays strong North winds dropped overnight and switched to South,When this happened the bay to our North froze. Still open South , The next time the winds drop is Nov. 28th and I expect the rest will freeze at that time. Moore Bay,Welcome Channel also froze during night