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Sunday, January 22, 2023
Massive icebergs pass through Iceberg Alley near Ferryland, Newfoundland, Canada. I bet on quiet nights those bergs make some weird sounds.
I spoke to locals on a visit up there. The bergs creak and grind against the bottom. Also, they harvest ice and make beer from that 25,000 year-old iceberg water. see https://quidividibrewery.ca/
Somewhere I read that scientists noticed huge grooves on the bottom of the ocean off the Atlantic coast of the US. Finally, after considering all the possibilities, they came to the conclusion that the grooves were caused by giant icebergs during the last ice age dragging their hind ends along the bottom. That's just too cool. I hope it's true.
My daughter lives in New Hampshire 15 miles from the Main border. Her best friend's husband has a side hustle where he runs his boat up the coast to harvest ice to sell to the bars in Boston. He makes stupid good money doing it.
They also bring the temperature down significantly. We were visiting my wife's folks in Newfoundland when a huge iceberg showed up two days after we arrived. It went from summer temperatures (it was late June--75º-77º) to down to about 40º to 50º in one day (it was still sunny and clear) and stayed like that until the iceberg moved on which took the better part of the week. I had to pick up a sweatshirt and sweat pants because I only had shorts with me and it got really cold at night. We had to use the wood stove to keep the house warm since the furnace had been turned off and the oil tank was very low/empty--and oil delivery wasn't for another couple of months (seasonal drivers).
In '88, my oldest son was graduating from HS so we decided todo a National Lampoon Newfoundland vacation. We borrowed an old pop-up that a guy was taking to the dump, and off north we went, camping along the way. Halfway up across Cape Breton Island, I looked back to see the popup had poped up. We fixed that and got on the ferry when a hurricane hit. The boat was big enough to take the storm, but there were a few sick folks around. I asked around about Icebergs and was told that we were guaranteed to see some if we went to Twillingate, way up north from Ferryland. The only ice we saw was in the cooler in the back of the van
I thought global warming/climate change took care of those over sized ice cubes.
ReplyDeleteIndeed, I was assured that the polar ice caps would be completely melted several times over by now. The science was certain of it!
DeleteIncredible to consider most of the berg is submerged.
ReplyDeleteI spoke to locals on a visit up there. The bergs creak and grind against the bottom. Also, they harvest ice and make beer from that 25,000 year-old iceberg water. see https://quidividibrewery.ca/
ReplyDeleteSomewhere I read that scientists noticed huge grooves on the bottom of the ocean off the Atlantic coast of the US. Finally, after considering all the possibilities, they came to the conclusion that the grooves were caused by giant icebergs during the last ice age dragging their hind ends along the bottom. That's just too cool. I hope it's true.
DeleteMy daughter lives in New Hampshire 15 miles from the Main border. Her best friend's husband has a side hustle where he runs his boat up the coast to harvest ice to sell to the bars in Boston. He makes stupid good money doing it.
Deletevodka too... https://www.iceberg.ca/
ReplyDelete...yeah, and deep too!
ReplyDeleteThey also bring the temperature down significantly. We were visiting my wife's folks in Newfoundland when a huge iceberg showed up two days after we arrived. It went from summer temperatures (it was late June--75º-77º) to down to about 40º to 50º in one day (it was still sunny and clear) and stayed like that until the iceberg moved on which took the better part of the week. I had to pick up a sweatshirt and sweat pants because I only had shorts with me and it got really cold at night. We had to use the wood stove to keep the house warm since the furnace had been turned off and the oil tank was very low/empty--and oil delivery wasn't for another couple of months (seasonal drivers).
ReplyDeleteThat must be the coolest - and scariest - thing to witness!
ReplyDeleteimpressive,to say the least.
ReplyDeleteIn '88, my oldest son was graduating from HS so we decided todo a National Lampoon Newfoundland vacation. We borrowed an old pop-up that a guy was taking to the dump, and off north we went, camping along the way. Halfway up across Cape Breton Island, I looked back to see the popup had poped up.
ReplyDeleteWe fixed that and got on the ferry when a hurricane hit.
The boat was big enough to take the storm, but there were a few sick folks around.
I asked around about Icebergs and was told that we were guaranteed to see some if we went to Twillingate, way up north from Ferryland.
The only ice we saw was in the cooler in the back of the van