shelf ice

Look closely at the satellite pictures and the higher air temperatures recorded in the region are obvious from the large number of melt ponds that sit on top of the shelf ice.

“The lake landscape in the winter is spectacular with shelf ice,” Labovitz says.

Rowe says you can safely view the shelf ice at the Lake View Beach picnic area in Beverly Shores or from the park’s bathhouses.

"This unknown biodiversity has been covered by shelf ice for thousands of years. It's had no sunlight and therefore it has had no food coming in through phytoplankton."

He struggled with the shelf ice and we even had to break a section of it off to help keep his fly line for freezing to it while casting.