out the back door of my house, down through the field and woods to the water is a 12 min walk at high tide, and another 12 min + walk to the water at low tide, 53 vertical feet between the two.
I know ,not the slightest thing about tides, other than what my senses tell me when walking the shore, and I suppose the practicalities of beach walking along cliffs
are similar to planning and predicting arival times for ships loaded to the maximum draft, the money to be made there bieng the motivation behind the push to understand tides.
huge, and where else?
there are some places here where the slope is so gradual, that the low tide is over the horison
growing up we had a camp right at the end of Burnt Coat Head, in Noel, and never did make it to the low tide line
between there and Cape Split there is the full range of tidal phenominon on display, resonant standing waves, whirlpools, tidal bores(with surfing black ducks),whole bays emptied, and varios dikes and berms, dams, locks, to hold it back
there are one ot two other places on the planet that are close, and from the charts in the article, spots with NO tide, which when I think about,is very wierd indeed
