Pushed by a gentle southwesterly wind, a thin sheet of ice on Lake Superior breaks into thousands of individual pieces or plates along the beach just north of the Lester River Saturday morning.
Photos by Bob King and video by Samantha Erkkila.
1/Freshly-cracked slabs of Lake Superior ice slip, slide and stack along the shore near the Lester River Saturday morning. (Bob King / rking@duluthnews.com)
2/"I've just never seen anything like this before," said Emma Anderson of Duluth as she examines a plate of ice that cracked off when southwesterly winds caused the skim of ice on Lake Superior to stack along the shore near the Lester River Saturday morning. (Bob King / rking@duluthnews.com)
