The "sand bar" off Park Point is actually made of ice - covered with blown sand.  It will be gone as soon as it melts.

There's ice under the sand.  Happens from time to time.

Arizona senator Jon Kyl caused this sand bar when he dumped nuclear waste there this winter.

This was not intended to be a factual statement.

Now I have a flashback to the post many, many, many years ago where the person was ranting about the corporations dumping their chemicals into the rivers and how it was causing the lake to turn brown.

Turned out it was just that normal run off that happens from time to time that turns big chunks of the water red.

Little geology info,

Park point is the newest of a series of bay mouth sand bars that have formed over the years since the last ice age. Rice Point and Conner's Point were once lake front. So looking at that ice/sand bar is kind of like looking into the future of the twin ports. 

Read Minnesota's Geology by Ojakangas and Matsch for further information

Representative Ted Poe (r-Tx)

Jon Kyl sold the extra letters in his name for heroin.

This was not intended to be a factual statement.