Sunday's adventure was to discover the Herringsdorf Seebruecke(Pier). We approached it from the beach - walking along the sand and them amongst the frozen waves. There were lots of people walking on the waves with us and even a few walking under the pier itself...
When we walked up the stairs and out along the pier, we could see a whole new and different perspective. After several convolutions of fractured ice, the sea flattened out into a giant jigsaw - made up of different sized pancakes... I had read about pancake ice forming in the antarctic - the first stage of a sea freezing - large generally circular pancakes form and as they move around and bump into each other, their edges thicken.
I enjoyed the mosaic jigsaw of thousands of pancakes of different sizes, shapes and textures as far as the eye could see. I also was perplexed as to why the sea birds decided to stay on certain pancakes and how some ducks and seagulls had even found a tiny swimming pool on top of the ice.
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