During the winter the waves splashing against the shore build up into moutains of ice that build up onto the existing lake surface and form mountains of ice and snow that extend a long way out into the lake. As the temperature gets colder, further ice forms on the lake as the surface itself freezes. This new surface on the lake then becomes a forming point for additional ice-hills that can be seen stretchign out for miles onto the lake. Sometimes, after a thaw, the surface ice melts, leaving an odd looking band of ice-hills that extend across the horison about a mile out. This picture shows the ice-hills that form at the shore, and how the icy whiteness extends over everything.
Trees are on one side, and the profile of the ice-hills can be seen.
The enclosed lagoon opens to the lake on its southern shore. This excess of warm water has the effect of making a path of ice-free water as it passes outward and cools. Were it not for this river of ice it would be very hard to see how the shoreline actually pulls landward. Although ice-hills line the outside, the flat expanse of ice seen here is floating over water after the area where brown dune grass can be seen poking out. The ice-hills usually have a jagged seaward side to them.