HUGE icebergs the size of boulders have been washing up on the shores of Cape Cod after one of the bitterest winters in living memory.

    Months of frozen temperatures have created huge sheets of ice up and down the coastline and now the temperatures have warmed slightly they are breaking up and washing ashore.

    In Wellfleet, on the Massachusetts coast, the ice made the beach look more like an arctic wasteland than the soon-to-be summer playground of the rich and famous of the East Coast.

    Cape Code National Seashore administrator Marianne McCaffery said that “They are bigger this year because there has been no snow melt in between storms.

    “I’m not surprised, considering the type of winter we have had.”

    Leonard Croteau, a Wellfleet Assistant Harbormaster, said the chunks were all over the place. “This year has been a lot more than normal, but usually we don’t have snow this long either. It’s been here for a while,” he said.

    Meterologist Jim Andrews said: “It’s obvious that the ice ‘boulders’ have a more complex history than the typical ice found on calmer waters such as lakes and sluggish rivers.”(SD-Agencies)