transition

Amazing how quick the lake changes. Every day Lake Superior can change drastically. The pancake ice I photographed yesterday was all but gone today. At that location, the ice had frozen over ice skating rink smooth all the way to the ore dock; only skeletal remnants of the pancakes could be seen sparsely along the shoreline. Really if you hadn't seen it the day before, you wouldn't know it had been there.
Where there's still any inkling of open water, which is a fetch to find, just as amazing sounds as sights are to be had. Big sheets of ice are shifting with the wind, coliding into each other like bumper cars. The lake sounds like a big soup of cracking and creaking with an occasional thunderous pop of a massive piece of ice sheet cracking. Tommorrow everything will probably completely frozen stone solid, that's how quick the lake is freezing now.
Lake Superior with pack ice to the horizon