Today on the lake ...

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The sun was shining - but it was cold, cold, cold ...
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There are few pleasures as wonderful as skating along a natural ice surface like a lake, or in the case of Ottawa and Winnipeg, the Rivers that wend their way through thier environs.
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Fortunately for Minnedosa, we have the vast ice covered surface of the Lake to explore ... or at least a small cleared corner of it !!
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I love skating on the surface of lakes and looking down to see the thickness of the ice ... the cold green-blue of the water, and the occassional glimpse of the bottom !!! I remember skating on Lake Ontario in front of Queens University many years ago and watching the fish swimming (albeit slowly) underneath the ice ... it was amazing!!!
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No fish today, but it was a good day to be skating across the ice:
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