ice report

This picture is looking North towards the Narrows at 16:00 on 22nd.--our place is in the right foreground.Nothing new to report,Ice is melting slowly. There is an old wives tale the locals repeat and that is "after the ice turns black for third time stay off its no longer safe to walk on." We saw it go black on 21st. for the 1st. time.Changed the plane from ski's to floats on the ice yesterday.Today I will pull her onto land and take the quad off the ice,down to using the ice boat for travel.Looking out kitchen window The last of the snow has now melted in the bush.

lynx sighting

Spotted this lynx coming off the tip of East Allie around 15:00 on the 20th. and walking over to the Island south of us. He walked the length of that island and headed north to French Narrows about an hour later.Have seen his tracks in winter,this is the first sighting.Flying in to Bare Point on ski's this morning.Still 24" ice were I park plane but had to build a bridge to get quad onto ice .Will post a picture of ice with a report later today.

officially spring

Spring has arrived-killed 3 skitters on 16th. The Pelican's arrived this eve 17th.
While getting a boat ready @ the dock I noticed 3 deer walking on the ice from point of F.N.-they walked up to the open water-jumped in and swam to East Allie.Next day they showed up here.

ric's pictures

Spring Thaw Again

Was out flying today-this picture is of the ice road in front of Guy & Gaye's. The trees under the cowling are Dave & Pats point.Ice is deteriorating fast,Ice is starting to "candle" and shore lines are pulling away.I thought I might make 1 more quad trip to town but Queer Island route is definitely out,will have to go 12 mile route.
Mallards arrived on 13th
Turkey vulcher on 15th.
Blue Jays and Chick-a dee's have moved on
On the 12 th my 1st estimated boat trip to Bare Point was May 07th, after today Peter put me down for May02nd.

first open day for boating ?

lets do a, who can guess the first day you could boat to our camps?

peter thiessen---may 2

Spring Thaw

Not a lot of changes here in past week. The Goldeneye ducks returned on April 12th.
Was flying on 12th and there are still trucks travelling over 12 mile and a van was fishing @ Rocky Narrows.Saw a boat pushing ice in Keewatin Channel.
While typing this letter I'm watching 4 Eagles chasing an Otter around the open water out front.
The ice road is gone in front of Guy Belluz and have to pick your way around the tip of Queer-other than that travel is good by Quad as all snow melted off the ice on
11 th.