Ice comes in many forms, from gigantic icebergs, to tiny flurries of snow, which many of us see in winter. Only a few of us, however, have encountered a field of “ice eggs”, each one the size of a football.
That was exactly what amateur photographer Risto Mattila encountered when he decided to take a stroll along Marjaniemi beach on Finland's Hailuoto Island — a field of “ice eggs.”
Lucky for us, he took some snaps, which quickly spread through social media.
"I was with my wife at Marjaniemi beach. The weather was sunny, about -1 Celsius (30 Fahrenheit) and it was quite a windy day," Mattila told the BBC.
"There we found this amazing phenomenon. There was snow and ice eggs along the beach near the water line."
A stretch of roughly 30 metres (about 100 feet) of sand was littered with frozen spheres that ranged from golf ball-sized to the circumference of a football.
Find out more about ice eggs over at ScienceAlert.
(Image Credit: Risto Mattila/ Instagram)
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