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@ Perry
« on: October 18, 2016, 11:19:49 am »
Perry, I was looking at your profile info and noticed you live VERY close to the Bay of Fundy, did I surmise correctly?

Isn't the Bay of Fundy the place with the world's largest tides?  I'd like to hear what it's like to live in such a place.  Does it bring a lot of tourism? Seems like big tides give a lot of opportunity for clam digging and such...?

Just curious.  :)
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« Reply #1 on: October 18, 2016, 08:05:58 pm »
Absolutely. The Bay of Fundy is only about 10 minutes away.
Halls Harbour is a huge attraction, I'll post a time lapse video to give you an idea. Every 6 hours!

 
The Bay has tides as high as 52 feet.
They are still trying to figure out some way to harness the awesome power of the tides, but every attemptt to date has resulted in demolition of the turbines.



The local University (Acadia) has Mud Creek Days, after which the students go to the fire station to get hosed off. :D

Any of you who decide to visit, I'll do it if you do! :)
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« Reply #2 on: October 18, 2016, 09:10:56 pm »
Awesome time lapses Perry!  Thank you  :)

We heard stories while we were in Alaska about pedestrians, and vehicles, stuck in the mud flats with rising water.  I suppose similar acts of human misjudgments are in your news as well.   

How does winter weather affect your Bay?  Do you still have warm water coming up the coastline from the south to keep the Bay open (ice free)?

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« Reply #3 on: October 19, 2016, 07:25:37 am »
There are always a few who misjudge the tides. ;D :D
The ocean freezes at points in the bay as well as along the coast, and when the tides go in it snaps the still frozen water and then pushes it ashore which can and has resulted in some spectacular ice "mountains". There were places along the shore where houses were being threatened by the pushing of these ice mountains inland. NOTHING will stop the power of the tides. :o
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« Reply #4 on: October 19, 2016, 12:19:36 pm »
Thanks Perry.  A very interesting report.   :)

Climate is interesting.  There is an Anthropologist at the Smithsonian Museum who believes some of the Native Americans followed the southern edge of the ice cap at the end of the last ice age from Europe to the new world, (see Solutrean hypothesis in North American archaeology).  If that happened, they would have passed pretty close to where you live when they got here.
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« Reply #5 on: October 19, 2016, 01:17:21 pm »
Also of interest Lee:

http://www.bluebeachfossilmuseum.com/

Chris is the main guy behind this. He has traveled the world talking, and they believe Blue Beach is one of 2 places that life first left the water to live on land (for those who think this way ;D). Someplace in Scotland is the other. Our property in Lockhartville (honey house) is only a mile or 2 away.
The fossils are so predominant I would almost defy you to visit there and come away without several. Each time the tide turns stuff is disrupted and new finds are made.
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« Reply #6 on: October 19, 2016, 04:11:13 pm »
I enjoyed that website.  Thanks!   :)
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« Reply #7 on: November 05, 2016, 08:41:13 pm »
Gotta say, that is just awesome. Someone, probably not an engineer, will come up with something to harness it.
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« Reply #8 on: November 06, 2016, 08:01:33 am »
I've done the Polar Plunge on January 1st in Lake George.....I would do the mud if you join me!
We will definitely be coming up for a visit! 
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