I know we have seen it before and we have read about it all our lives, but it is not until you are confronted with an endless expanse of mad flats that the 50 foot tide becomes reality. The tides along the Fundy Bay are unequalled in the world. We drove along the end of the Bay, at the south and north shores of the Minas Basin where the Bay gets narrow and all that water is squeezed together during the high tides, raising the water level up to 50 feet.
At Advocate Harbor, we observed fishermen lifting the lobster pots out of their large fishing boat. The boat was sitting on the mud bottom about 25 feet below the dock. They were using a power winch to raise up the pots. My brother David chatted with the men. They told him that when the tide comes in, the boat will leave, to retrieve the last of the pots as July 31 at midnight the lobster season ends on this coast. After three hours, when the tide is full, the men must step up to get onto the boat. At the moment, the mud flats in front of us stretch as far as you can see. The open water is a long way away.
It is an amazing sight and worth the short trip these past few days. It is kind of a freak of nature.
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