Winter 2015 served up enough brutal cold and record-breaking snowfall to call to mind Arctic landscapes, ice planets and the Titanic – comparisons made more poignant as massive icebergs have made landfall near Cape Cod.
A Cape Cod-based photographer, who uses the pseudonym Dapixara, captured photos of large ice chunks that had washed ashore in Wellfleet, Massachusetts – which the photographer said on Twitter were between five and seven feet tall or larger. The photos show a figure dwarfed by the icebergs while walking along a sandy beach.
This is how thick ice in Wellfleet, Cape Cod! Dapixara pic. @CapeCodNPS #nature http://t.co/EZ4jzjrCMY pic.twitter.com/QLoutS9ELB
— Dapixara (@dapixara) March 7, 2015
The towering ice chunks are probably a “once-in-a-generation” weather event caused by the extraordinary amount of ice that has accumulated in the Massachusetts Bay, the chief meteorologist for WBZ-TV in Boston told CBS. But the arrival of warmer weather means the hulking ice formations won’t be imposing for long – news that’s particularly welcome in Boston, which got so much snow in January and February that the city ran out of places to put it.
The photos come a month after another New England photographer, Jonathan Nimerfroh, published images of nearly frozen waves crashing on to the Nantucket shore, which he dubbed “Slurpee waves” for the amount of ice in them.
