Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Breakup begins

The ice has been gradually receding from the shoreline of Arctic Bay.  Two nights ago I noticed the bay was breaking up.  Yesterday evening I went for a walk and there was a lot more open water than floating ice.

The reflections were just beautiful:



Sunday (two days before) this was iced over, and I was stepping onto the ice to scrape snow to eat from the crusts on top of the ice when I was out on my hike.  I guess I can't do that any more:

1 comment:

  1. It's like a mirror. California surfers would be disappointed.

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