Lake Superior ice amazes Silver Islet kayakers

A Thunder Bay resident "encountered ice like we've never seen it before," in Lake Superior while kayaking near the Sand Islands east of Silver Islet this week.

Lake Superior was nearly completely frozen over this year and heavy ice trapped 18 ships in ice near Whitefish Bay earlier this week.

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But the ice formationsPaul Berger witnessed between April 5 and April 7were more awesome than fearsome, rising up to three metres above the water, with much more ice beneath the surface.

"Wikipedia says that icebergs are pieces of a glacier that have calved off, so these would not qualify," he wrote in an email to CBC News. "Still, on April 7,we watched huge pieces fall from the largest of them and then it rolled just like an iceberg!"