Leelanau’s ice caves are back. They’re not as gigantic or awe-inspiring as the 2014 ice caves that formed near Gill’s Pier between Leland and Northport, but they have nonetheless garnered the attention of nationwide media. Glen Arbor resident Eric LaPaugh took this video on Feb. 16 of ice caves that had formed in Sleeping Bear Bay, just outside Glen Arbor. The lucky find has attracted free publicity for his company Leelanau Adventures, which offers guided tours of lesser known spots in the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.
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Photo by Robert Bushway, robertbrucebushway.com Snowpocalypse 2.0? Will we see ice caves again along the shores of Lake Michigan this winter?
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This Memorial Day weekend, the Leelanau Press will publish a new book by photographer Ken Scott of the rare ice formations he captured this past winter off the shores of Lake Michigan in Leelanau County. Through his lens, the viewer will experience ice caves in early winter, after a March thaw and refreeze, ice balls, ridges, volcanoes and pancake ice in a color spectrum from white to green to blue. Words cannot describe the beauty of these unusual natural ice structures that only a few brave souls have experienced.
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