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Breaking the Ice There were no signs saying don’t molest the ice. (At least, none visible from the water.) And while it was pretty, you can’t argue it was anything other than ephemeral. And really, sort of dangerous: a small kid might be tempted to climb up on top. So we did our part to keep small children safe and removed this particular temptation.  It was fun to break it down.
And very satisfying. Oh yeah, and it sounded cool too! Sometimes it is very rewarding to help protect the younger generation like that. And of course, there were lots of cool ice bergs and cliffs — we didn’t break them all. Hard to say what will happen with the ice next; it was 60 today and talk of snow tomorrow. 
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Warmer Still… We paddled around a bit, broke up some ice bergs, rode some ice bergs and saw the Jones Point Lighthouse from a new view.  And we noticed a cool plate tectonics demonstration: the tide was going out and we saw this sheet of ice sliding over the other sheet as it headed out to sea with the tide (carrying us with it for a little while).
We were curious what was going to happen when the top sheet hit that extra chunk of ice attached to the bottom sheet. The top one broke up a bit before loosening the chunk and sweeping it along. We saw one channel marker stuck in the ice and were thinking about rescuing it. But I got spooked watching it getting pulled under the ice, so we abandoned the rescue mission and returned to opener water.  We stayed aware of where the ice was, which way it was going and where our out was as we paddled around in it. And we were never threatened by being stuck in the ice — but we weren’t able to get around the bridge piling we were trying to sneak around.
Probably most impressive was how quickly it changed as we helped to free some huge chunks to float down on the tide. |
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