Many times I have heard the people in my hometown telling the stories about walking on water, to go to their working place. Walking on frozen water, of course. There were times though when that was possible and some did it, the courageous ones of course.
Back in the 80's most of the town's population worked on a naval construction site that we have in here, and this place, is basically on the other side of the lake that the Danube created, and if you could go straight from the town to the site you will have something between 500-1000m to walk on, depending on where you live.
I haven't witnessed such people getting to work on the frozen lake, but I've seen the waters of Danube being thick frozen in two or three winters throughout my childhood. I doubt we will have that this winter thanks to global warming. We did had a frozen lake, last year, and the pictures bellow are the proof of my saying.
The ice was something like 4-5 cm thick and in some places, where waves allowed that, it cracked. On other sides of the lake, like in the first pic, it even shaped around the decks over there and made everything magical around it. I guess the water was very calm at the moment of tacking the pic and the ice was thicker than usual.
It depends a lot on how much sun rays are allowed to pass over the hill when studying ice. In some areas of the town you have more sun during the days, than in others. The landscape though is very beautiful, in my opinion, when the lake freezes, but I have never had the guts to walk on ice. Even when it was 15-20 cm thick.
I did it in Norway, mostly because everyone was doing it, but wouldn't do that in here and never did. I do like tacking pics of it a lot, and I really really hope to have a frozen lake this winter as well, but I don't have high hopes. I felt like sharing these pics though so you guys can have an image of what I'm talking about.
It is worth mentioning that the water only freezes on the artificial lake that we have in here. On the course of the Danube you don't get to see ice because of the currents that the water has and the ships passing every day. Yes, there is some, near the shores, but not on the open waters. That's it for today with my walking on water and I hope you like the pics.
Thanks for attention,
Adrian