Cottagers want to know the lake conditions. Some lakes, Chemong for example, now have open water with no ice. Anstruther is a very deep lake and is one of the last to thaw every year. We still have ice covering most of the lake within sight though the ice is now very dark and there are a couple of large cracks and a lot of water now at the shore’s edge. See today’s photo. Last year, we lost the ice on April 10th, it may be around that time this year or possibly sooner if those double digits actually come to be.
For those who have never seen the ice leave, it can be very destructive. The second photo is from a couple of years ago and shows the day we lost the ice, the wind turned toward us and blew a mass of ice toward boat dock ‘A’ which in the photo has heaved from the pressure, staff were on the lake in an effort to break it up to minimize damage to our docks . For anyone who has returned to their cottage to find their dock damaged, this is a visual of how that happens, the ice crushes anything in it’s way and pushes it on shore.
