In pictures this week

LOBSTER BOATS OR ICE BOATS? … One of several recent hard freezes created sheets of ice near the Northeast Harbor Marina. PHOTO COURTESY OF WINSTON SHAW

MILES OF SMILES … Mount Desert Island YMCA Sharks swim team members, from left, Sammy Jacobs, Maddie Woodworth and Eliza Schleif celebrate finishing their laps in the team’s Aquathon fundraising event Sunday. PHOTO COURTESY OF TABATHA SULLIVAN

PASSING GOOD PHOTO … Mike Hudson of Illinois took this photo of Hunter’s Head in Acadia National Park that will appear on the park’s annual entrance passes beginning in May. Acadia received more than 700 entries in the annual park pass photo contest, Superintendent Kevin Schneider said. PHOTO COURTESY OF ACADIA NATIONAL PARK

FORENSIC FUN … Members of the Mount Desert Island High School Speech and Debate team at the state championship event at Bangor High School Jan. 27. Front, from left, Athena Brown, Colby Bennoch, Ethan Leonard, and back, from left, Dezirae Zaman, Kris Deveau, Sabrina Calas, Desmond Reifsnyder, Peter Benson, Axel Eschholz. Brown took third place in Program Oral Interpretation, Calas finished fifth place in Congressional Debate and Coach Kris Deveau was recognized for many years of service to the Maine Forensic Association. PHOTO COURTESY OF KRIS DEVEAU

CAN’T TOUCH FISH … Ava St. Amand, 6, of Bass Harbor at the ice fishing derby last Saturday, trying her best to avoid contact with the fish she had caught as she labels them. ISLANDER PHOTO BY HENRIETTE CHACAR

PALE WINTER SUN … Floodwater and ice in Great Meadow in Acadia National Park Tuesday. ISLANDER PHOTO BY SHAYLA WHITE

CALM BEFORE THE STORM … Wednesday’s sunrise as seen from the waters around Great Cranberry Island. PHOTO COURTESY OF AMANDA BRACY

PHANTOM FOOTPRINTS … All of the snow and ice on this section of the Park Loop Road near Great Meadow had melted by Monday afternoon, except where footsteps packed it down. ISLANDER PHOTO BY SHAYLA WHITE