ice-shelf

Updated: June 25, 2025

All along the margin of the pool, as far as the swift water beyond the stakes, the ice-shelf was now so high above the river that even to a large animal like the otter it offered no landing place. Only at the stakes, where the dark, cold stream flowed rapidly between two blocks of ice, could Brighteye enter or leave the river.

Alfred Wellesley Rees - Creatures of the Night: A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain