{"id":204,"date":"2017-02-14T07:40:41","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T12:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=204"},"modified":"2017-02-15T12:55:34","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T17:55:34","slug":"government-dock-waves-and-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2017\/02\/14\/government-dock-waves-and-ice\/","title":{"rendered":"Government Dock &#8211; Waves and Ice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-205\" src=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC06574.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC06574.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC06574-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC06574-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-206 size-medium alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC06594-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC06594-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC06594-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC06594.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>It was so beautiful Saturday, the sun was bright and sunny. I think that this was the first sunny day in nearly a month &#8211; or at least it seems that way. Everyone was bright and cheery, reflecting the sun in their faces. Deciding to take the afternoon off and enjoy the weather, Marcus and I headed to our favourite spot, Government Dock.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The wind was steady, and without any ice to impede them, the waves rolled up on the shore. Every now and then, you could see a chunk of ice, embedded with sand and worn by the waves. Clinging to the rocks were icicles with caps of snow and ice. Each smashing wave, if it didn&#8217;t knock the icicle off, grew it by tiny layer after tiny layer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-207\" src=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC06603.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC06603.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC06603-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC06603-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was an adventure trying to time waves smashing on the rocks, but eventually, a wave rushed up and kissed our boots. Well, not so much as kissed them as &#8216;smothered them with love&#8217;. We had soakers! After only about 15 minutes of walking on the beach, we were trudging back up the shoreline to the truck. Cold, wet feet in the winter is not a great idea or feeling!<\/p>\n<p>Once warm, we decided to see what Michipicoten Bay looked like from the Lookout. From there we could see a ribbon of ice, way out in the bay. It stretched from the point at Government Dock to the Lighthouse. I&#8217;m not sure we will see any great amount of ice coverage on Lake Superior this year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; It was so beautiful Saturday, the sun was bright and sunny. I think that this was the first sunny day in nearly a month &#8211; or at least it seems that way. Everyone was bright and cheery, reflecting the sun in their faces. Deciding to take the afternoon off and enjoy the weather, Marcus &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-local"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-06 17:18:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions\/226"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}