Skating on black ice

The 2008-2009 winter season gave us perfect ice. No wind, no snow, blue skies and cold nights created the best ice we have had in years. Totally black ice. You’re on the middle of the lake and you look down and all you see is bottomless black. And it feels very different from the stadium skate track where you have 5 centimeter ice on a concrete floor, this is ice floating on water and it makes a very distinct sound when you ride, ploink ploink ploink.