Anywhere thawed out yet?

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Did a photography run to Door County today.  The Bay side is still frozen, but is open around Green Bay.  The Michigan side is open and crystal clear.  Waves at Cave Point were a little rough but diveable away from the rock shelves.  The algae has been scoured off by the wave action and were nice and bright.  It looked like there might have been a current running from the south, and there was some serious looking undertow in some of the rock shelf cuts.  There is a lot of ice still piled up on the shore.

While at Sturgeon Bay a laker put to sea with the help of a Coast Guard tug.  I think the tug was doing some ice breaking duty.  It was weird hearing the ice cracking near shore from the water displacement.  The water level looks down about a foot or so from last year.  Much more of the Bullhead Point wrecks were exposed than last year.