Tides In!

The Biggest Tide Changes in the World

The Bay of Fundy starts out in the Atlantic some 180 miles from the throat of the Chocolate River. (The river indeed looks like it is a flowing river of milk chocolate) The Bay is 80 miles wide where it begins and only 1 mile wide where it ends. Because of this funneling effect and also some rolling action of the Atlantic they experience some of the largest tide changes in the world. I think 52 feet is there record. Today when we visited, the tide changed some 39 feet between high and low tide. This massive tide change works as a rock carver on the shores it moves against. There are some amazing rock formations along the long bay as a result. Most of the formations looked like they could have been carved by man. Giant toadstools, phallic symbols, and towers and many more shapes dot the coastline of the Bay of Fundy. Across the New Brunswick side of the bay is Nova Scotia.