The Ice Mountains Of Little Traverse Bay

We ventured into an alien landscape that few have experienced. The solid world that exists for a few months when the bay freezes, and then disappears into the waves like Atlantis. Most every year it comes back, always completely different in form and attitude. This year there were ice mountains, huge sandy caves, and round balls that look like ice cream scoops. Some areas looked like giant pieces of peanut brittle. "Rivers" of clear ice wound though the landscape.

They say that the Earth has all been explored, but clearly there are often new frontiers like this, keeping things fresh. So it was not without reason that we felt like explorers discovering new lands.