Our tour director said this is the first time she has witnessed such extreme tides. ![]() When a channel suddenly gets deeper, it experiences a positive surge. A tidal bore is a strong tide that pushes up the river, against the current. Our tour group of 46 was blessed to see this incoming tide, as well as others in New Brunswick, in addition to a low tide at Hopewell Rocks-where we “walked on the ocean floor.” There was a full moon when there in June and the tides-high and low-were extreme. The Moncton tidal bore laps the shore Auric via Wikimedia (Creative Commons) Meandering peacefully across New Brunswick, the Petitcodiac River is, for the most part, a totally normal river. A tidal bore occurs along a coast where a river empties into an ocean or sea. Many people “chocolate water raft” the rapids. When a large tide enters a shallow, funnel-shaped. Twice daily shifts in the tides causes a “river” to flow in a low place, what may have once been mud flats or swamp. A tidal bore is perhaps the most spectacular tidal phenomenon that can be readily observed. Tidal bores are tidal phenomenon that occur when the leading edge of an incoming tide is formed into a wave or waves and this then travels up a river or narrow bay against the normal flow or direction of the current. ![]() ![]() Muddy as liquid milk chocolate, the swift current coming in gives the impression that it is a swift river flowing to the sea. It is a strong tide that pushes up the river, against the current. A tidal bore, often simply given as bore in context, is a tidal phenomenon in which the leading edge of the incoming tide forms a wave (or waves) of water that travels up a river or narrow bay, reversing the direction of the river or bay’s current-in this case, Bay of Fundy.
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