Jeff and I went up to the cottage with his parents this past weekend. The last of the ice was going out when we arrived (see above photo). ‘Twas very cool to hear the crackling and hissing of the slush as it shifted, gradually melting into the water.

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One of the highlights from our visit to the cottage this past weekend:

Lying in the middle of a frozen lake in Algonquin Park, listening to the boomBOOM muffled cracks of the ice.

When cracks started appearing around us, I got a bit nervous:

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