April 15 th update

Last 2 days have been windy,first from SE on Friday to NW today. Also had a little rain overnight,we need a good soaker,has been no precipitation past month.All snow has melted in bush,frost coming out and drying up. The lake level is a little low but has come up a little since the spring melt has started. This morning we had a piece ice the size of a football field float past. I went out after lunch to see how far I could get .Left our Dock and followed boat channel to Queer,had to slow down few times pushing through mushy candled ice. Made it to Allan's reef by following old ice road then ice became thicker so I turned East towards Railroad and stayed on south side to the red Bouy at the East end of Railroad. From here I made it to within 200 yards of Cat Island pushing through mushy ice. The ice was getting too thick to go any further ,could see the open water at Strawberry Narrows .
The ice in the Hades was just as solid,from here I headed East into Moore Bay again pushing through mush ice about 3" thick but candled. Once through the Narrows at Dwight Nicks was open water all way into Moore Bay Lodge and as Far East as you could see past the green Bouy. My guess it's open to Eagles Pass. We should get to Bare Point by Tuesday at latest.??? Solid ice South and East of our place. Have heard you can boat from town to Camp Stevens and just short of Scotty's beach. So there is not a lot of ice stopping us from getting to civilization!