‘It looked so real’: ghostly ‘iceberg’ was a wonder of nature – just not an iceberg

Canadian photographer Simone Engels was stunned to spot a huge white structure apparently floating far from any ice sheet

Clear winter skies and the promise of a recent evening's beautiful sunset led photographer Simone Engels to a nearby park on Vancouver Island. But as she trained her lens on the pinkish hue of the landscape of the Pacific coast, she was shocked to see a large, iceberg-like shape on the horizon.

It was this huge, shiny, three-dimensional tubular structure," she said. It looked so real."