T Stands for Our Nova Scotia Trip-Part 5

     Hi everyone. Happy new week and new month to you. And hello to everyone who stops by from Bleubeard's and Elizabeth's  blog for T day.

    Today I want to take you back to the tides in the Burntcoat Head area of Nova Scotia that I shared with you last Monday. If you missed that post and want to check it out you can find it here: Walking on the Ocean Bottom.

     When we were in the lighthouse at Burntcoat Head, we were talking to the park ranger.  He suggested we were going to be passing a local river at just the right time to see the tidal bore. He told us there were 2 places to see it, but he suggested the second spot (The Bay of Fundy Interpretive Center) because they had a pier that you could walk out on to see if from a higher perspective.

    A couple of you mentioned the reversing falls you had seen in New Brunswick in your comments last week. These are different from a tidal bore. For those of you who don't know what a tidal bore is, it is when you have a river flowing out to the ocean, and then at high tide, the ocean flowers inward in the opposite direction of the river flow. It creates a wave that flows down the river as the ocean water comes in.

   We headed to the Interpretive Center and joined some other people there to see the wave. This first  photo is the sign that explains where we  were. And the second photo you can see our onto the platform and how many people were already there when we arrived.

  Here is one view of the river when we first arrived.  At this point the river is low because 1) the same severe drought in my area was (and maybe still is) in Nova Scotia so the rivers were low and 2) high tide hadn't hit this area yet.

    Here's the view in the other direction. It's not a super photo because of the angle of the sun, but notice on the far shore there's a big sand bar.

    You can see it better in this next photo, and you can see the wave of the tidal bore  just coming down the river to where we were.

The wave swallowed up the sandbar quickly.

 The ripples are forming as the 2 waters, each going in opposite directions, mix.

    Here's the wave as it comes in towards the shore. This is the same view as the first river photo I shared. It is the same view you'll see again in a few more photos.  It's amazing how much higher the water level of the river was as the tide rushed in.

   Here's a close up of the ripples as the water mixes.

   One thing you can do on this river is raft on the tidal bore.  It looked like fun.

   And look how high that water on the shore has gotten.

    I'd never seen a tidal bore before, and it was cool. Now I need to add those reversing falls to my bucket list. 👍

    While we were waiting for the wave a bald eagle was flying around us. This is not the best photo but it's the best I could zoom my camera lens in. You can tell it's a bald eagle though. 

  I need to share a drink for T this week, since so far I haven't shared one. When we left the tidal bore we went into Truro and checked into our hotel. After that we went  and grabbed some dinner. We hadn't had anything to eat since breakfast except for those Timbits I shared in last week's post.

  With dinner I had a hard cider, which was quite tasty.

    And that's my ticket to T this week. Plus the end of this post.

    I hope everyone has a super T day and week ahead.