Ice! Not!

Further to BondPapers' seal report, here's the Labradore ice report. These pics were taken by your humble servant last week over the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

Here are the Magdalen Islands, with the Cape Breton Highlands in the far background; ice-free other than in the lagoons:

The east end of Anticosti:

An atypical view of the north-central part of the Gulf. Atypical, because there was actually visible ice in it:

Looking east along the North Shore, with Kegashka approximately in the centre of the picture; the unfinished road to Natashquan stretches west (down) along the shore, while either the snowcaps of the Long Range Mountains of Newfoundland, or clouds forming over them, may be visible on the far distant horizon:

Looking west along the North Shore, over Aguanish and Iles-Michon, just west of Natashquan:

And the almost tropical-looking south shore of Anticosti; this one is at its original resolution, if you click to embiggen: