Nickys Nose Cove in spring...

Bergy bits & growlers line the shores, a product of the constant shifting and grinding of grounded glacial & sea ice.

Iceberg Alley

The calving of 10,000 year old Greenland glaciers creates a flow of large icebergs that cross the North Atlantic to be swept by the tides of the Labrador current onto rocky shoals along the islands NE coast. Occasional strong NE breezes push the icebergs into the deep bays and inlets to be grounded and smashed against the rocks.

Grounded ice.

The grinding against the bottom causes an upwelling of microscopic plant material that fuel the food chain. This coinciding with the spawning of capelin and herring that are in turn consumed by overwintering whales who follow the fish to shore in spring.