I Love New York Travel

Taken at Oneida Lake, Lewis Point, NY. Just a few months ago, the lake was solid frozen. Snowmobile tracks were like zipper marks on the ice, and a few dark ice fishing shanties peppered the horizon. Now it’s just ice, and noisy geese in the melting areas. Too treacherous to venture out on the surface anymore.

Taken on the shores of Oneida Lake, at Lewis Point, NY. The lake is, for the most part, still frozen in mid-March. But there are slushy spots and I could see the water moving below thin ice areas. No sane person would dare traverse the ice now; it’s too unsteady.

Still, my son and I threw heavy rocks on the frozen lake, and the rocks smartly bounced off the ice. Yet I would not allow him to step on the lake. Maybe in January when temperatures are sub-zero again…. I’ve seen enough of those Western/pioneer-story movies, with people in wagons trying to cross frozen bodies of water in the spring…. *shudder*