Now you are probably wondering "what is the Ice Wall". If you live anywhere in Atlantic Canada, you probably heard about this phenomena on the evening news. If you live anywhere else, you might have no idea what I'm talking about.
The Ice wall is basically....an ice wall. It's a wall along the shore made up of ice that piled up. At one point, the bay was frozen but a fluctuation in temperatures caused it to melt and break up and this, combined with some high winds and surf, pushed that ice to the shore where it piled up. Actually it piled up to an impressive height as you can see in the pictures.
We arrived mid-afternoon expecting to see a few people there as it was a sunny, mild Sunday. I was quite surprised to see that there was quite a lot of people. Possibly close to a hundred or more. Cars were lined up all along the highway. We parked further down and found a path leading down onto the shoreline. The well-beaten path in the snow was an indication of just how many people had gone through there in the week or so since the ice appeared.
Many of these people tere were parents with small children who were excitedly climbing the giant ice wall. At one point dad asked me to climb to the top so he could get a picture. I had good hiking boots on so I figured "why not, the kids are climbing up there just fine, so I can do it". Not a chance. While the ice looks like giant chunks of hard snow, it is in fact chunks of pure, slipper ice. One step up was enough before I nearly fell. I have no idea how those kids were running and jumping around without falling.
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