Here in central Ontario we are still waiting for the water to soften, a bit of open water around the north shores of some lakes where the sun reflects off the rock or near the in and outlets. We had 16" of white stuff still in a lot of spots in the bush but I made it back to my pond on the ATV for the first time since I took the tracks off last week-end. Lots of spring melt flowing in from the hills, in fact I have never seen the pond that high. (my ponds only water source is rain water and when I started it would dry up about August, then I would dig deeper.Now it holds water in the deep holes all year) By the afternoon the pond is 20% ice free but it freezes up each night. All this should soon change as there is no more frost called for in the next 4 days, highs of 19-20deg C are coming.(we hope)Pat