Just to prove I can walk on water I took this GPS screen shot. Yes and I found it quite easy although I would say there was an extra nip in the air this morning. My host at my digs told me too wrap up well this morning and I did. More or less the same as last night but only one pair of thermals on my legs. 

The Songhua River is used for the ice harvesting for the ice festival. When you walk along it you can see at times the thickness of it. In fact I saw something flowing underneath at one point. 

This looked like bubbles trapped in the ice. You can see the structure of the ice and it’s fascinating. 

There were 3 guys fishing. They had cut two holes in the ice some distance apart and had managed to thread a rope through the two holes. At one end two guys slowly fed the nets through the hole. At the other hole one guy was hauling on the rope. They would have been about 30 metres apart so I’m not sure what the trick is in getting the rope threaded through the two holes. I didn’t wait to see how successful they were because when you stand still for two long you feel the cold. 

The first bridge you see here over the river is for the high speed train and I’m sure I heard the ice making a noise when one train went over head. 

There are folk walking in all different directions and believe it or not you have to watch out for cars and some of them are absolutely flying along and they won’t be able to stop in a hurry. 

I enjoyed my stroll along the river although there is a wee niggling thought that persist, the thought that the ice will crack and swallow you up. But I’m comforted by the fact that there are cars and even a truck cruising around without a care in the world.