For some reason seeing ice at the beach makes it feel, oh, a trillion times colder…

Like this just looks cold, doesn’t it? It was!

The stiff wind doesn’t hurt….

That’s not completely true because it hurts your face….

Even when it is beginning to thaw it still just looks cold…

This ice is breaking up but I don’t think it is going to melt away quite yet

At least on the outer beach there is still plenty of open water….

Beaches shown here include Rock Harbor, Paine’s Creek and Nauset Beach.