Coast of Ice

This sound I collected down at the beach of Lake Michigan near Big Bay. Admittedly this area was not apart of my original Drift plan, but I had my recorder with me that day and I found some cool things to record. In this location, the winter has completely taken over the beach with snow and ice. The ice had spread all the way past where the water normally meets the sand and you can actually stand over the lake. The waves have carved out small caves underneath the ice creating a hollow, echoing *splunking* sound. In this spot I also found large sheets of ice floating together with the waves, scraping, crashing and rubbing together sounding much like Styrofoam packing moving around in a box. I know that water sounds are generally to be avoided in these drifts, but I liked how it was one of the first sounds I came across that didn't pick up cars and planes and dump trucks backing up. It is one of the only sounds I have that doesn't have the noise of the city in the background at all.

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