{"id":8677,"date":"2007-03-11T23:03:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-12T03:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2007\/03\/11\/giant-animals-and-walking-on-water\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:35:10","slug":"giant-animals-and-walking-on-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2007\/03\/11\/giant-animals-and-walking-on-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant Animals and Walking On Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, instead of talking a bunch about what I <strike>did<\/strike> saw today while wandering around, I&#8217;ll just post photos, because I think they are sort of nifty. Click each one for a bigger (or in some case full-size versions), which is worthwhile for the wide format ones.<\/p>\n<p><!--more Clicky here to see the pictures...--><br \/>\n<center><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_6530-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_6530-scaled.jpg\" height=154 width=640 border=0><\/a><br \/>Vehicles lined up in two general rows, forming an area used for racing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_6542-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_6542-scaled.jpg\" height=158 width=640 border=0><\/a><br \/>Snowmobiles and a dirt bike with an extended frame taking off from the starting line.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_6523-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_6523-scaled.jpg\" height=427 width=640 border=0><\/a><br \/>Yes, all of this is on a lake. Well, it&#8217;s actually on <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/?ie=UTF8&#038;z=12&#038;ll=42.61956,-82.729797&#038;spn=0.190742,0.248566&#038;om=1\">Anchor Bay<\/a>, which is part of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lake_Saint_Clair_%28North_America%29\">Lake St. Clair<\/a>, which is part of the waterway connecting <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lake_Huron\">Lake Huron<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lake_Erie\">Lake Erie<\/a>, two of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Great_Lakes\">Great Lakes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It freezes solidly enough that in the winter people regularly drive full size trucks rather far out on to it. As you can see, it&#8217;s chock full of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ice_shanty\">ice shanties<\/a> and fishermen, along with snowmobiles, four-wheelers, dirt bikes, trucks, people, and just about anything else one can imagine, including lots and lots of beer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_6561-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_6561-scaled.jpg\" height=427 width=640 border=0><\/a><br \/>Someone taking off quickly along the race area.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_6534-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_6534-scaled.jpg\" height=640 width=427 border=0><\/a><br \/>Slightly melted part of the surface of the ice, which makes the thickness of the ice apparent.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_6576-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_6576-scaled.jpg\" height=427 width=640 border=0><\/a><br \/>A Ford F150 parked on the ice, with other vehicles and ice shanties stretching far out into the lake.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_6580-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_6580-scaled.jpg\" height=183 width=640 border=0><\/a><br \/>Refinery in Ontario, Canada, just across the river from Marysville, MI.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>These following few photos were taken before the others, but they are at the bottom anyway. They are of a <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/?ie=UTF8&#038;z=19&#038;ll=42.675061,-82.771618&#038;spn=0.001491,0.001942&#038;t=k&#038;om=1\">miniature golf course located just east of I-94 along 23 Mile Road (M-29):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_6514-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_6514-scaled.jpg\" height=640 width=427 border=0><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_6516-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_6516-scaled.jpg\" height=640 width=427 border=0><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_6515-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_6515-scaled.jpg\" height=427 width=640 border=0><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_6517-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_6517-scaled.jpg\" height=427 width=640 border=0><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_6519-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_6519-scaled.jpg\" height=427 width=640 border=0><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_6520-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_6520-scaled.jpg\" height=640 width=427 border=0><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, instead of talking a bunch about what I did saw today while wandering around, I&#8217;ll just post photos, because I think they are sort of nifty. Click each one for a bigger (or in some case full-size versions), which is worthwhile for the wide format ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,34,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-found-things","category-moved-from-livejournal","category-outdoors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12953,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8677\/revisions\/12953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}