Mexico Bay boat launch gate

St Paul's Cemetery looking east toward 4 mile point

Lately I have seen a lot of posts online about how much of the Great Lakes are ice covered. I have seen some reports claiming the the lakes are as much as 85% covered in ice.

 Last Saturday February 28th was a cold but sunny day so Barb and I decided to check for ourselves how much ice is on our end of lake Ontario.

The first place that we stopped was the Mexico point boat launch where we took a couple of pictures and as far as we could see out on Mexico Bay there was solid ice. 

  

       The Oswego Harbor from the cemetery bluff

We then drove to Oswego where we went to the bluff at Saint Paul’s Cemetery and from our vantage point there we couldn’t see any open water either. 

To finish our fact finding trip we went to the West side of Oswego overlooking wright’s Marina and the Oswego Harbor from there I think I saw a little open water in front of the lighthouse but I’m not 100% sure of that. The river is ice covered from the bridge street bridge all the way to the light house and from Wrights landing marina to the Maritime Museum the ice looked thick enough to fish on.

There must be some open water out in the Lake somewhere because we are still getting lake effect snow and if the lake was frozen over we wouldn’t be getting any of that. This winter is one for the record books and I’m hoping that it will pass sooner rather than later because I’m chomping at the bit to get the boat in the water and catch some brown trout. 

 

Oswego Lighthouse

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West side of Oswego Harbor

             
                            

                          Wrights landing marina looking east toward the Maritime Museum