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I like to offer an explanation with many of the pictures I show.\u00a0 But, I just don’t know what is going on here.<\/p>\n
I was walking beside some ponds on the south side of Kokanee Creek Park when I saw ice blocks (up to about 30 cm) sitting on a thin sheet of ice on the water. I even imagined that they might be caused by children breaking an ice layer. But, there was scant evidence of foot prints near the pond. Besides, there were a number of sightings on different ponds, some in places largely inaccessible to humans. So, children breaking an ice layer seems unlikely.<\/p>\n
Besides, why were there so many ice blocks of a nearly rectangular shape? And why were they common in one place and absent in, what appeared to be, a similar adjacent place?<\/p>\n
I looked online for an explanation and only found a few pictures often from other continents. But, they were just pictures on a market sight — with not a word of explanation.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sigh, for now, a scene like this is, for me, unexplained. Beside the obvious that the temperature is low (well, only about -4 \u00b0C), how did they come about?<\/p>\n
Many nearly rectangular ice blocks sit on a thin layer of ice on a pond.
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I like to offer an explanation with many of the pictures I show.\u00a0 But, I just don’t know what is going on here. I was walking beside some ponds on the south side of Kokanee Creek Park when I … Continue reading