Posted on 12/23/2008 8:20:07 AM PST by BGHater
A Mississauga man’s photo of a bizarre “creek circle”—a round piece of ice, spinning, on the surface of a frozen creek — has become an Internet hit.
Brook Tyler,a research director and amateur photographer,stumbled across the six-foot-wide circle on Saturday morning, as he strolled across Sheridan Creek in the Rattray Marsh Conservation area.
“It was a perfectly round circle with about two inches of slush and water around the sides, and it was spinning,” he said. “I was so excited to see if I could capture the movement.”
Mr. Tyler, 49, photographed the mysterious rotating disk, which he called a “creek circle” as a tongue-in-cheek jab at crop circles, unusual designs that have randomly appeared in farmers’ fields, and posted it to the Flickr photo-sharing Web site.
In the days since, it has drawn considerable attention online. BlogTO featured Mr. Taylor’s photo, and nearly 150,000 people viewed it on Digg, and debated its potentially paranormal origins.
Mr. Tyler insists he did not alter the photo, aside from brightening it a bit, and says the ice circle was not manmade.
“The ice was actually too thin on the creek to walk on and there was no footprints on the ice. The creek had just frozen,” he said.
This is not the first “creek circle” to appear in Canada. Eight years ago, Joan LaForty stumbled across a similar phenomenon her backyard in Delta, Ont.
The 15-foot-wide spinning circle of ice drew quite a crowd in the small eastern Ontario farming town. “It was nature or environment or something. It wasn’t manmade. Not possible,” she said. “Unless it was a little guy from Mars up there, or a flying saucer or something. That’s what I thought at first.” But don’t call in the ufologists just yet.
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I hereby name the circle Eddy.
Pretty cool.
Dang! I was just going to say “what the heck is it Eddie?”
I love hiking in winter.
Bingo!
LOL!!!
I love the Eddy line!
That’s nice, now move along Eddy...
Is that its current name?
Can we bank on that?
At Niagara Falls, the Whirlpools form downstream at a bend and are very visible from above for the same reason of formation.
Just go with the flow and call it Eddie.
Just go with the flow.
Unidentified Floating Object.
Will it be Eddie, or Eddy?
The latter will offer up the possibility of hopelessly obscure jokes in reference to Notre Dame football teams from 1965-68. just in the “Nick” of time.
Somebody lost a tar to their ice car!
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