It's nice having hard water and being able to walk out on the lake, although I stayed well away from the outlet of the lake crossing it, although towards the end I did hear the ice shift, although I still think it's pretty hard -- but I don't know, I didn't cut a hole. Still I'm very careful out on ice, as I wouldn't want to fall through, especially with nobody around. It's February, but winters aren't as hard as they once were.

Along the frozen pond which runs along the gated truck trail/snowmobile trail.

This time of year I had no interest in getting to close to the ledge. It was slippery, and easy to trip up on ice atop the snow that I was breaking through with the snowshoes. I always enjoy visiting The Gulf, and one of these days I will go down in it take some pictures, in the moist, damp gulf that never has much sunlight, leading to many unique and endangered species.