Comments (0) Nevermind about that whole spring hitting Ohio post that I did yesterday. We had the flowers for a couple of days, but then this happened. Hopefully the real spring (instead of last week’s impostor) shows up soon. I’m done with this winter stuff.
Spring is continuing to travel northbound. I don’t have to be jealous of Victoria in South Carolina now. The first flowers are blooming in Ohio.
Victoria’s husband sent me this pic this week – sunrise in South Carolina. From what he says, it’s still a little chilly down there, but this is a good sign that spring will be on its way up north soon.
I realized that I forgot to post this video last week. My bad. Anyway, here’s a video of some of the neat ice waterfalls that are coming off of the rocks headed south on highway 69 and highway 400. Even on a cloudy day in the winter, the cliffs of blasted rock look so pretty.
and a picture of it:
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After hanging out at the cottage, we decided to go to the end of the island for a bit.
I was really surprised at the lack of fishing huts. Last time I came out here on the ice, there were probably around five just in this area.
You can only see one lone fishing hut way in the distance with a snowmobile parked in front of it.
Here’s a video that the husband made of our walk to the end of the island. It’s amazing how much more wind there is in the winter – not anywhere as much snow as there has been on previous visits though.
What a difference a few months can make. The same view is now a bit different. There’s a new temperature, new snow, a newly frozen over lake and a newly missing branch too.
The late summer view from the new window on the back porch:
and the winter view from the new back porch window:
We actually stayed at the cottage for a lot longer than we planned. We didn’t have anywhere to sit down on the porch, so instead of digging for the nice porch furniture and cushions that are hiding in the spare bedrooms for the winter, we found some of the outdoor plastic furniture and we set that up on the porch so we could all sit in our usual spots.
To warm up, we decided to turn on the propane and make some hot tea out of melted snow. We found out that there actually is a lot of air in snow. We were surprised that we only got a few mugs of tea out of all of this snow.
Though we were still a little chilly, we realized that life on the porch is the same year round:
Once we made it to the island, it was good to see that there weren’t any fallen trees and that the buildings appeared to be in good shape.
No big trees on the cottage this winter:
Even the outhouse was holding up well. It looks like some fishermen used in during the fall (and perhaps recently too), but they kept it looking nice for our visit. I had to smile, when I found the door frozen open showing the sunny day on the bay paint job that we gave it last summer.:
A video – pardon the mess in the cottage. When we close the cottage for the winter, we have to put all of the porch stuff inside. That makes for a very cluttered cottage.:
After convincing the roommate that the ice was thick enough, we decided to head out to the island by foot. There’s something really weird about walking out on the ice. My perception is five feet off because I’m used to sitting in a boat when I see all of the usual landmarks, not standing up. Plus, it’s just weird walking on what should be water for over a mile.
We tried to stay in the snowmobile lanes as much as we could because the ice is thicker in them compared to the rest of the ice on the lake. This is because when the snow is compressed on the ice because of the weight of the snowmobiles, the snow loses its insulating qualities, making the ice easier to freeze there.
Here’s a view close to the mainland:
We would cut across land whenever we could:
And it started to snow:
Finally though, Action Island was in sight:
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