KAKABEKA FALLS — She's lived in the Kakabeka area all her life, and has seen the falls in all its glory many times, but Sherry Malinoski was still surprised by what she observed Tuesday afternoon.
It was more than just the Kaministiquia River's thundering plunge into the gorge that got her attention.
"Because I live so close to the falls, whenever there's a big rainfall, we can actually hear it in the village...and when the water does roar like that, you know that in cold temperatures there's going to be ice," she explained to Newswatch in an interview Wednesday.
"But I didn't expect the ice formations I saw above the falls. It was quite spectacular. It was on the trees, the grass, the plants, everything was completely coated. The picnic tables, all the railings. It was pretty amazing."
Malinoski, who's an amateur photographer, posted photos on the Thunder Bay and District Photography Facebook page.
"I've lived here my whole life and have walked down there hundreds of times. I've never seen that," she said.
As for the waterfall itself, she said with upwards of 70 mm of rain having falling in the area, the river was considerably higher than it was a couple of days earlier, so the torrent was exceptionally impressive.
Her photos were seen by about 2,700 people as of Wednesday afternoon.
