Hi,
Here are some pics of my hike today at Cape Split, Bay of Fundy. I got up a 4:30 AM to start hiking by 7:00 AM, in order to be at the lookout for the tide coming in. They are apparently the highest tides in the world, rising up to 8 ft. per hour... here is some info that I copied from a Nova Scotia site about them:
- The highest tides on planet Earth occur near Wolfville, in Nova Scotia's Minas Basin (this is essentially where I was).
- The water level at high tide can be as much as 16 meters (52.5 feet) higher than at low tide.
- Small Atlantic tides drive the Bay of Fundy/Gulf of Maine system near resonance to produce the huge tides.
- Near mid-tide at Cape Split, one may hear the "voice of the Moon" in the form of the roar emitted by turbulent tidal currents.
- At mid-tide, the flow in Minas Cannel north of Blomidon equals the combined flow of all the rivers and streams on Earth!
- Nova Scotia bends when the tide comes in! As 14 billion tonnes (14 cubic kilometers) of sea water flow into Minas Basin twice daily, the Nova Scotia countryside actually tilts slightly under the immense load!
For the movies (warning... large downloads!) below, you can right-click and "Save Target As..." They're .mov files, and play in QuickTime
NOTE!! Large File This movie is huge (50 MB), but it's an excellent panorama view. It takes about 20 minutes to download with a cable modem, so dial-up folks may not want to bother, and pay-by-minute folks don't even think about it!
:
http://harlos.net/photos/CapeSplit/panorama.mov
This movie (20 MB) shows the tide rushing in at Cape Split, and you can hear the "voice of the Moon" mentioned above:
http://harlos.net/photos/CapeSplit/tide.mov
Here is some false tinder fungus (Fomes fomentarius):
True tinder fungus (Innotus Obliqus), being harvested with my Busse Leaner mean Street (actually, I left the fungus... the knife was just posing):
A resin blister in a balsam fir:
Some scenes:
The white water here is from the tide rushing in:
This (below) is the lookout that I used. The pic below it is me on this. It was a bit scary using the self-timer, trying to rush in front of the camera without tripping... the drops is a few hundred feet off this narrow point!:
Here are some pics of my hike today at Cape Split, Bay of Fundy. I got up a 4:30 AM to start hiking by 7:00 AM, in order to be at the lookout for the tide coming in. They are apparently the highest tides in the world, rising up to 8 ft. per hour... here is some info that I copied from a Nova Scotia site about them:
- The highest tides on planet Earth occur near Wolfville, in Nova Scotia's Minas Basin (this is essentially where I was).
- The water level at high tide can be as much as 16 meters (52.5 feet) higher than at low tide.
- Small Atlantic tides drive the Bay of Fundy/Gulf of Maine system near resonance to produce the huge tides.
- Near mid-tide at Cape Split, one may hear the "voice of the Moon" in the form of the roar emitted by turbulent tidal currents.
- At mid-tide, the flow in Minas Cannel north of Blomidon equals the combined flow of all the rivers and streams on Earth!
- Nova Scotia bends when the tide comes in! As 14 billion tonnes (14 cubic kilometers) of sea water flow into Minas Basin twice daily, the Nova Scotia countryside actually tilts slightly under the immense load!
For the movies (warning... large downloads!) below, you can right-click and "Save Target As..." They're .mov files, and play in QuickTime
NOTE!! Large File This movie is huge (50 MB), but it's an excellent panorama view. It takes about 20 minutes to download with a cable modem, so dial-up folks may not want to bother, and pay-by-minute folks don't even think about it!
:http://harlos.net/photos/CapeSplit/panorama.mov
This movie (20 MB) shows the tide rushing in at Cape Split, and you can hear the "voice of the Moon" mentioned above:
http://harlos.net/photos/CapeSplit/tide.mov
Here is some false tinder fungus (Fomes fomentarius):
True tinder fungus (Innotus Obliqus), being harvested with my Busse Leaner mean Street
(actually, I left the fungus... the knife was just posing):
A resin blister in a balsam fir:
Some scenes:
The white water here is from the tide rushing in:
This (below) is the lookout that I used. The pic below it is me on this. It was a bit scary using the self-timer, trying to rush in front of the camera without tripping... the drops is a few hundred feet off this narrow point!:
