It occurs twice a day, every single day, and has for hundreds of years. However watching the world’s highest tides arrive and recede within the Bay of Fundy by no means will get outdated.
On the head, the tide can rise about as tall as a four-story constructing. Photographer Melanie Stetson Freeman and I drove to Burntcoat Head Park in Nova Scotia, the place guests can stroll onto the ocean flooring when the tide is out and return hours later to see it disappear underneath the 160 billion metric tons of water that stream into and out of the bay every day.
On the Fundy Discovery Website, vacationers can witness a tidal bore, or a wave that strikes upstream in a river. The instances for the day’s bores are listed exterior the customer middle, however on this mid-September day, birds started flocking across the banks of the Salmon River, asserting the bore’s arrival. “It’s just like the cavalry arising over the hill,” says Nancy Wooden, visiting along with her husband, Leonard, from North Carolina.
Inside quarter-hour, the bore rolled in, protecting the riverbed upon which the birds had been fortunately perched at low tide. “You don’t see this every single day,” says Mr. Wooden.
Melanie Stetson Freeman/Workers
Melanie Stetson Freeman/Workers
Melanie Stetson Freeman/Workers
Melanie Stetson Freeman/Workers
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