ExiledInIllinois Posted April 27, 2014 Share Posted April 27, 2014 http://wavesatseacav.../wave_pics.html This is an interesting link I have been following all this winter. Check out the same dates for previous years... You can even catch kayakers @ various times of the summer/year or people walking on the ice in the spring/winter. August 13, 2013: http://wavesatseacav...08-13_12_00.jpg Look @ the pictures from last night and then this morning. This area has been showing one main fracture all winter (to the left)... Then another, then a third.. Click on the times between 11:00 and 12:00 noon for today and you see the whole area of ice just cleave away sometime between 11:50 and 12 Noon. Kinda neat, IMO... Shows just how fast things can change, especially if one is out ice fishing late in the season. Safety, safety, safety! I am assuming the edge of open lake water moved close to the pack ice and the pack ice "released" along those natural fractures. Then the rest of the slab was history. Here is the ice chart for yesterday... You can see the open Lake ice creeping near where the Mainland Sea Caves are: http://coastwatch.gl...2/glsea_cur.png This was March 15, 2014, when I went up there... Right before they closed foot access from the beach a mile or so away. In this picture notice that first fracture in the ice is there... Been there almost all winter: http://wavesatseacav...03-15_13_30.jpg Last night @ 20:00 http://wavesatseacav...04-26_20_00.jpg Today @ 07:00 http://wavesatseacav...04-27_07_00.jpg 10:00 http://wavesatseacav...04-27_10_00.jpg 11:50 http://wavesatseacav...04-27_11_50.jpg Noon: http://wavesatseacav...04-27_12_00.jpg 14:00 http://wavesatseacav...04-27_14_00.jpg 17:00 http://wavesatseacav...04-27_17_00.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloBud Posted April 28, 2014 Share Posted April 28, 2014 Interesting. Now look at it - http://wavesatseacaves.cee.wisc.edu/wave_pics/2014/2014-04-28_06_30.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledInIllinois Posted April 28, 2014 Author Share Posted April 28, 2014 Interesting. Now look at it - http://wavesatseacaves.cee.wisc.edu/wave_pics/2014/2014-04-28_06_30.jpg That is neat/wild... How quick mother nature changes things! 24 hours ago it looked like you could drive a snowmobile over it (probably too thin... But it was one piece) and now there isn't one chunk of ice left. That has to because of wind action and not being locked to the bottom/shore (fast ice). We were walking on it in March and you could see it clearly that it was frozen solid right to the bottom of The Lake 3 or so feet (in the shallow spots)! It would have cool to se it on video as the huge slab broke free. I wonder what it sounded like? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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