Melt

Drilled a hole yesterday and 27" ice!! The ice has melted at our landing and in a couple days will have to lay down a sheet plywood as a bridge.still too much snow in places where it blows in on the North side to walk around island yet.Mergansers and Golden eye ducks have been back swimming around in the open areas for about a week now.As well as Red Finch and a few songbirds.Took this picture on 23rd and since then it has doubled in size,last year on May 7 we could canoe across.The lake temperature is now 3.5C