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 artic wasteland than the soon-to-be summer playground of the rich and famous of the East Coast . Cape Code National Seashore administrator Marianne McCaffery told the Boston Globe 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 , told the newspaper of the chunks 'They are 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 . ' Meterologist Jim Andrews told Accuweather '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 . ' 'Most likely it is formed by the bashing together of pancake ice or ice floes . ' Chilly weather : An onlooker is seen bundled up while walking past ice chunks on Cape Cod , Massachusetts . Nature : 'Dapixara , ' a photographer from the cape town Wellfleet , snapped the images of the larger-than-life chunks . Can you reach the top ? A person holds out their hand to feel one of the ice chunks . Snowy weather : A pooch is seen standing on top of one of the smaller ice chunks .
Huge chunks of ice - many of which are taller than humans - have been spotted in Cape Cod , Massachusetts . Score: 7