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TRAVELSyracuse Herald American Stun Muftazin* Sept. 29, 196523Don’t let the tide pass you by★ TIDESContinued from Page 21New Brunswick, across Fundy Bay. also has a lot or gTcat tidc-watching places like Marys Point, Ilopewcll Cape (The Rocks,) Funday National Park including Marys Point, Hopewell Cape or The Hocks, Cape Enrage, Red Head, Alma, St. Martins and Saint John with its one-of-a-kind Reversing Falls.These tides have to be one of nature’s greatest wonders. No one who goes into the Mari-times, even for a day, should miss them. It's almost impossible. Newspapers, radio, television weather and news stations constantly give the times uf the two high and two low tides daily. Tourist information centers, hotels, gas stations, restaurants and other puhlic plaues offer free brochures and folders listing the times; daily for the summer, six months or more. Many also have brief explanations and Lips on watching them.In case you’ve forgoltcn, the ocean tides are caused primarily by the pull of the moon’s gravity on earth. Tt pulls up water, causing a high tide on Earth directly below the mnon and on the opposite side, where it's pulling the Eart h away from the water.There's a high tide twice daily at each point in the ocean as the Earth makes a complete revolution. The two times a month when there is a new ar.d a full moon, the moon and sun are aligned with the Earth. Their combined pull of gravity ercatcs “spring tides” that are much higher than average.The funnel shape of the Bay of Fundy's coastline makes its tides so spectacular. North At-lantic waters pour into the mouth of the bay as the ocean tide rises. The bay is 48 miles wide, hut continually gets narrower all the way down its 145-mile length. What happens is this: The possibly unnoticed flow at the mouth can churn up into a wave that may swell to;-V:-IM If1Here’s how high and low tides change the landscape of Grand Manan in the Bay of Fundy.several feet high as it rushes inland and is squeezed by the constantly narrowing shorelines.Tide waters flood into and over outgoing rivers, reversing the flow as you watch. Small and large boats that have been beached in mud flats five, 10,30 and 40 feet below docks rise gracefully and effortlessly.Miles of mushy mud flats, high rocks, long ledges and some cliffs disappear under water or become small islands. Circles or weirs of high poles ringed with netting are filled with trapped fish. Birds thathave been feeding on mud shrimp and other dclicacies move up into higher ground. Some 17 species of whales may be in the buy searching for new food supplies brought in by the tidai waters.Fishermen in conventional boats must know the times and the tides or risk being beachcd in the mud. Small town folks who pass an area in low tide can get mighty confused on a return trip at high tide. You have 'to see some changes to helieve them. Astounding.IL’s no wonder so many people walch the tides. — Yucca ro\T____C* - - j* -
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Syracuse Herald American
Syracuse, New York, US
Sun, Sep 29, 1985
Page 185
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