This was the view from just outside our cabin yesterday morning:
As you can see, the weather had cleared and the ice had receded. Shortly after taking that photo a curious boat cruised past:
Much later in the day we returned to find the view outside had changed significantly:
Look at all that ice! The person at the end of the dock is the proprietor of the motel, who was frantically breaking the ice sheet that had slowly drifted east across the lake and was now threatening to crush his docks.
He explained to me the boat I’d seen earlier cruised back and forth all day to create a wake to keep the ice sheet on the western shore, but it hadn’t been enough yesterday and he seemed quite concerned it would damage his property.
Afterwards we returned to Funspot and didn’t get back until dark. This morning the ice was on the other side again and the docks intact. I think they dodged a bullet!
That’s a 306 foot tall monument in Bennington, VT built in the 1880s to commemorate a battle that occurred nearby over 100 years earlier. That little silhouette at the bottom is KLS! There’s actually an elevator inside that takes visitors up to a viewing platform but it’s still closed for winter so we couldn’t go.
We had stopped there on our way home today from our short “lakefront video game holiday”. While the trip itself is done (and was great), there’s still one more blog post to look forward to…