Ice balls.
The miracle of the north.
nature!
Imagine the shore of the Baltic Sea strewn with thousands of perfectly round ice balls. It looks as if fairy tale dragons visited here and left behind giant claws of eggs!
This amazing picture could be viewed on the island of Heilato, located in the Gulf of Bothnia, near the Finnish city of Oulu.
Ice eggs are a rare natural phenomenon that requires an unusually precise combination of temperature, wind and water movement to occur.
First, the water begins to freeze around a small pebble, piece of ice or snowball. Then small waves roll the future ice eggs along the shore, gradually giving them a rounded shape.
With each new revolution, they are covered with additional layers of ice, like pearls growing inside a seashell.
The smallest ones resemble normal chicken eggs, and some grow to the size of a soccer ball!
Finnish photographer Risto Mattila, who captured this miracle, said that in 25 years of living by the sea, he had never seen anything like it.
It is especially surprising that such ice treasures can disappear as quickly as they appeared. A change in the weather or increased wind is enough.
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