Tidal Bore

August 22

Since being here we have heard about the “tidal bore”.  This is where when the tide begins to come in there is a rush of water from the bay into a river creating a wave.

 This sounded interesting so we looked for where and when we could see one.  There are several places, some even offer to take us out in a boat (big raft) to ride the wave against the current up river.  We found a place less than 25 miles away to see this phenomenon.   When we arrived no one else was there and we doubted that we were in the right place.  In a few minutes others began to arrive.  The time came for the “tidal bore”, nothing to be seen!  About 10 minutes later, we could see down river a wave began to move up river.  It wasn’t a big wave but it was moving toward us and it was pushing waves to the shore as it came.

Before the "Bore"

After the "Bore"

  There was no question that after it passed that the river was going against the flow of water to the bay.  Nearly everyone left but one couple and they told Jan that if we stayed we would see how fast the tide climbed toward high tide.  In twenty minutes the river had raised over 10’.  This was really impressive with the current still flowing up the river.

Before

After