Pressure Crack Oh Yah Pressure

...Pressure's gonna crack on you. - Toots and the Maytals....sort of.

An up close and personal look at a new pressure crack.
This was NOT here this morning, when I was out BEYOND this point.
Some time during the day this giant crack that goes for MILES was created.
I'm just glad I wasn't on the ice when it happened.
Not because I couldn't merely have stepped over the crack to the thicker ice by the shore, but because the sound that this made, and the water gushing out from the crack would have had stuff gushing out of MY crack.
I would have been scared shitless.
As it is, when I saw this, it reminded me that what I'm doing when I go out onto the lake ice, is taking my LIFE in my hands.
I had hairline cracks happen again, underfoot just after this when walking to take this picture
The crack you see is the same one.
It went further than the eye can see.
Lake Simcoe is a vast body of water, and if you were to fall through the ice, you might not be found until spring.
Not a joke, not an exaggeration.
People die out here, in any season.
Here was one such example [link]
I still think about Mr. Chesterton's family.
Losing a loved one is never easy, and that's why I MUST take care when taking shots like these.
Although hypnotically beautiful, like a tornado, or a forest fire, it's deadly dangerous, and you must be ON GUARD at ALL moments.
I hope you appreciate the chances I take to get these pictures.
I believe the chance is worth it, to get images like this.
Remember, this is only waist deep, were I to fall through, but try walking a mile with a hundred pounds of ice encrusted on you.
That is if the cold of the water didn't give me a heart attack.

Picture taken on the newly frozen surface of Lake Simcoe at sunset.
Here's a picture of it from a standing position, so you can see how long it is.

UPDATE: WOW...posted this on 'pics' on Reddit, and got almost 2000 views...wow
Here is one doubling it to celebrate, with a thank you to Reddit...thank you Reddit.