Day 7 - The Weekend in Pictures.....and a Super Moon

We headed North on Saturday to check the cottage and have a weekend with nothing but the big beautiful North to entertain us.  Not telly, no Internet, no phone service.  I baked pies, and Belgian waffles with maple syrup we purchased from a Mennonite man right from the back of his horse and cart on the drive up, and spent the rest of the time faffing around with my camera.  We saw a beautiful hawk on the way up, but it misjudged the wind and speed and was hit by a car in front of us. 

The sunshine on the ice was like diamonds....brilliant and blinding.

The  ice in the harbour is starting to break and to shift, creating these enormous and spectacular cracks and shapes in the ice which reflected the sky in the most magnificent way.

What looks like water on top is actually divots and pockmarks in the ice.  It is still solid.  People were walking on it.

And on the unprotected side of the Bay, the ice and snow has been carried by the wind and has piled up on the rocks.

What looks like clouds above the lake is actually ice floes that have moved down down from Manitoulin Island...They were so brilliantly white against the sky today.

And then to end our day, we were treated to a Super Moon.  13%  larger than normal, something that occurs only occasionally, it was huge on the horizon, and bright.  It illuminated the entire harbour.  Did you think people seemed a little crazier last night....when I worked in the hospital we always knew when the full moon was happening......I wonder how it was with a Super Moon.!