From Ames Farm
 

Open water from Ames Farm over to Rattlesnake Island. You can see the ice just past Diamond. The ice is very dark ice from the scenic view on Route 11 in Alton.
After all the ice and snow this winter, an early boating season is just the ticket. :D

Thanks IG, DRH and All the Other Picture Takers
 

Rg
 

Thanks for the pics, RG. This is the first year in a while I am not on the island for ice out... so I live for all the pictures. See you out there!

IG

Alton Bay 4/5
 

Some more words and pics to complement RGs and others. Sitting on the dock today you could see and hear the wind beat up the ice in Alton Bay. Unforetunately it (the ice) was running from Sandy Pt and towards our dock. We did OK but some neighbors lost a loose post or two. But first some pics from the Rt11 scenic overlook taken around 5:30 PM.

Looking out towards Barndoor ...
Looking down the bay ...
And Little Mark I ....

Who's on the Ice
 

So looking across to Sandy Pt this was the scene. The looking down the bay towards the gazebo, you could see the ice closing up open water. Then Mee spotted this guy who crawled up on the ice to sun himself.

Meredith 4/5
 

As others noted there was abundant open water off Ames Farm. Interestingly the Weirs was still pretty much iced in. Meredith Bay was the same way, mostly ice except along the shore and at the tip. Here's the open water with the ice just poking in on the right. Then looking up the bay with Church Landing on the right.

Ice out at the northern end of Alton Bay:)

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Great pics
 

Thanks to all for posting the pictures; it's fabulous being miles and miles away that we get these incredible up-to-dates. Keep 'em coming.
Lakesridegr and ChaseIsland, thanks again.:)

thanks
 

Thank you all for the great pictures! IG's right - it will be very hard to get any work done this week!

Animated ice out
 

Watch the last 10 frames animated at:
http://winnipesaukeecam.com/DynamicVideo2.php

I'll try to post a video later today.

I can't wait till I can make it up there this summer.

Oh, I love this!!!!!!!!!! This view is only just down the bay from my view. I loved the longer video last year. Are you going to do it again?

nj2nh
(on Echo Point in August)

Hey, Meet N Mac, I think I can see our house in the second picture looking down Alton Bay. Is that Echo Point in the background? Keep those pictures coming!

nj2nh
(sadly forced to enjoy the ice out from Jersey)

Beats watching paint dry! LOL

If you blinked, you missed it!!
 

Wow, that was fast. The ice is gone on the Snakes Eyes camera. I just looked at it an hour ago!!

BT

Absolutely amazing transformation. Looking forward to the video! Very hard to work. Boats in soon?

Its time to turn up the temp of the lake heater. Ice out is taking too long and I want to go for a boat ride. :):)

It's going to be interesting for a few days now. If we were going to have a warm, strong-sunny day, I think it would be over in hours. But the forecast now shows nights well below freezing for the next week or so. If ice-out doesn't happen in the next few days, we could be in a holding pattern for awhile. I know the water temps will continue to cause the ice to melt. But I also expect we'll see the top skimming over on several mornings.

It's getting more and more difficult to even find the cams that still show ice! :D

I'm thinking that the ice will be out by Sunday?

That blows my original guess of the 27th and subsequent admissions that the 20th was more likely the date. I think I was way off!

Unfortunately, Ice Out is also Ice Drift season...RIP dock :(

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Thanks so much
 

This is my first season of watching ice-out with you all. And let me tell you.....I know what you mean when you say it is addicting. It is amazing. If work ever finds out how much time I am spending on line....they will fire me and rightly so!

To all that contribute your comments, pics and cams....thank you very much. They are all great. I really do enjoy them.

Can I ask....are there any web cams by Long Island? Our place is on Dow Island which is directly across from the Long Island Bridge. If there is a cam available in that area or does anyone has any pics, I would love to see them. Anything available by Harilla Landing?

Again, thanks for letting me enjoy this years ice-out with you all. Much appreciated!

Me to
 

Not to start the puns, but I would be in the same boat as you!

Great pics Mac
 

If you can turn your eyes away from what's left of the ice sheet floating in Meredith Bay, it almost looks like a June afternoon. What beautiful blue sky and great sunshine! They are unwrapping The Breeze a week from this Friday and we'll be waxing Sat,Sun and Mon. I really miss it. I don't care if it's 50 degrees as long as the sun's out and the buffer still works. You won't be able to get the smile off of my face with a hammer and chisel!

The Breeze
Wav 'cuz I'll be wavin' back :)

Thought you'd float one by us, didn't 'cha? :D

Getting to Rattlesnake Island
 

Can anyone report on the mouth of Alton Bay and the south end of Rattlesnake Island? Brookwoods FrontLawn Cam in Chestnut Cove isn’t the clearest view.
DRH’s Echo Shores Ice-Out Watch doesn’t appear to be showing ice to the end of the island any more.
We have arranged to have the boat ready for Saturday and now I'm sweating it.
Thanks!
RG

Still ice at bottleneck...
 

as of yesterday morning at 10:00 or so. From what I could see driving by on Rte. 11. It looked to be about a half miles worth of ice around at Sandy Point.

RG, the south side of Rattlesnake facing the Woodlands/West Alton looks clear from my vantage at Rum Point. There seems to be some ice on the Wolfeboro side, stretching down towards Wolfeboro. Yesterday there still was a fair amount of ice from the mouth of the Alton Bay down to near Sandy Point. But it was very dark and just about ready to go. If I get down there later today, I'll post an update.

Looks like its still pretty socked in between Black Cat and 3 Mile

Hey, I think that used to me my dock!

Think that's a current image? Ice looks much lighter and far more intact than any other area. Could that be a week-old shot?

It's current. It's my cam and I'm looking at the live shot as I write this. It takes a new shot every minute. I just changed the angle to look towards the Beaver Islands. They are socked in too.

No pictures from the pilot, yet this year? Looking forward to some aerials.

Island Girl, where is your camera/camp located on the broad side of Rattlesnake?

Duh...I replied without looking at your username/avatar...and I knew you were the one who ran that cam.

Very interesting to see how intact the ice is there. Thanks for the alternate view.

This thread (and site) have been simply awesome for giving me updates to the ice out conditions on Winni. However, I am planning to head up on Sat and the webcams show me exactly where to go and not to go but one area I can't see is 19 mile bay...anyone have any updates for the ice out conditions on 19 mile bay, chases island, out to Cow Island (the Chases point side of Cow)?

19 Mile bay
 

Check post #108. Chaseisland posted a couple of pics dated 4/5, maybe you could PM them and ask for an update?

thanks Pineneedles....I saw that post but a lot changed in the last 4 days so I was hoping for an update. I could PM but I thought someone would post pics for everyone viewing the thread.

Can I get to Rattlesnake Saturday??
 

Can I get from Minge Cove to the Sleeper side of Rattlesnake on Saturday?? I'm dying to open up and get out there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you do, can you report back? We are planning a trip from West Alton to Rattlesnake next Thursday and we are just curious about the "off cam" conditions.

Thanks to all that have provided views into the conditions, I can't get enough.

Amazing
 

Over 16,000 views of the thread in just 24 days. It never ceases to amaze me...

BT