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Seems the Charles is all it's cracked up to be

By adamg on Sun, 02/15/2009 - 10:54pm
Cracked up Charles

RDA photographed the path of an icebreaker through the Charles River basin the other day.

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By neilv on Mon, 02/16/2009 - 11:07am.

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.

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By ruthling on Mon, 02/16/2009 - 1:58pm.

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.

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By neilv on Mon, 02/16/2009 - 4:46pm.

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.

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