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...or in other words, “ ice pleasure”.

The ground is still frozen as hard as cement cement here, so we did not venture out to the lottie, but what we did do was to fool around the harbour and the old Zuyder Zee. It was busy out on the frozen water, busy with people and birds alike.

First of all, the pleasure skaters on our harbour waters.


You can see our harbour tower and old sea wall on the right.
A view taken from the corner:


In another section of the harbour, the birdies were present.


Moving from the inner harbours out to the big water, there was even a couple of kids being pulled along by a water surfing sail.





As the sun began to sink on our ijs pret, the skaters headed for home, as we did...I could hear a cuppa cocoa calling.— “Hot chocolate anyone? Perhaps with a chocolate macaroon”.

 

Sjoerd, the ice appears too thin for my liking. Lovely scenery.

 

Sjoerd, I'm glad people were enjoying skating and parasailing on the icy canal. I don't understand it, wouldn't do it, and think they might want to see a psychiatrist.
Hope you enjoyed your hot chocolate!

 

Glad you liked that scenery, GP.

Eileen, there have been countless cases of people falling through the ice here.

Jane— they were all having fun all right...sort of blowing off covid steam I guess.
Those bodies of frozen water were not lil ole canals though. We have lotsa canals here, but none so large that you can’t see the other side of them. Chuckle.
Well, I will not be strapping on the skates any time soon either. In fact the greatest enjoyment of skating these days is observing it with a mug of hot chocolate behind glass.

 

Eileen, I'm thankful that the man was walking on shallow water.

Marlin, I feel about the same regarding people who climb Mt. Everest.
However, to each their own.
Sjoerd, I would be joining you with hot chocolate. I have kittle coordination and skates are not my method of transport. The birds know they can fly away from danger in a split second.