The Minas Basin is an inlet of the Bay of Fundy. The big bay has the greatest tide extremes in the world. I visited Burntcoat Head Park to take a look. In the gif included here each photo was taken every minute from 3:22 to 3:28 PM today.
The tide was coming in. It was half tide meaning the tide was halfway to its maximum. When the tide is out mud flats and red rock that was sea bed just hours ago dominate the landscape.
Great place to poke around and see what’s there but when the tide is coming in it doesn’t mess around. You had better watch that your escape route back to shore doesn’t become blocked by the rising water.
The tide is extreme because of the configuration of the Bay of Fundy and it’s latitude. The average difference between low and high tides is 52 feet. Of course the real driver of tides is the gravitational pull of the Moon and Sun. Interesting bit of Earth science here.
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Here are a few more photos of Burntcoat Head Park on the coast of Minas Basin, Nova Scotia.
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