Surely you’ve all been on a big frozen lake as the ice is building thickness and the sounds one mistakes for fresh water whales echos around the shore. Or maybe you’ve been out there with your nice sharp ax, checking for thickness and ice quality and the first blow returns sounds that make you think in the blink of an eye that you are going in as the cracks zip off from your point of impact.
It’s the magic of ice speaking.
The ice in this short video sent in by Michael Young is just about as good as it gets. We could hold a regatta on two inches of this stuff.
The oaks in New England this fall are producing an unusually prodigious crop of acorns. What could it all mean?
Be ready. Come to the Swap Meet.
Chickawaukie Ice Boat Club 