Seems the Charles is all it's cracked up to be
By adamg - 2/15/09 - 10:54 pm
RDA photographed the path of an icebreaker through the Charles River basin the other day.
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Did it make noise when breaking?
Years ago, I was photographing birds on the iced-over canal turnaround thing behind the CambridgeSide Galleria. The waves from a nearby motorboat suddenly started the ice breaking, with a noise that I could only describe at the time as "dolphin music and cracking," lasting at least a minute.
If someone is down by iced-over water, and sees an ice-breaking event like that possibly about to happen, I recommend putting your camera into video mode and making sure the mic is not blocked by your gloves.
A couple of years ago, I saw
A couple of years ago, I saw the aftermath of an ice breakup on one of the ponds in the Middlesex Fells. The shoreline towards where the wind was blowing was a jumble of little pieces of ice overlapping and tinkling against one another. It was stunning.
Stunning
The "dolphin music" was, if I recall correctly, somewhat like creaking and chirping high-pitched violins.
I think we might call this and the tinkling you mention *nature sounds*, except we don't often get to hear them.