GC1PK00 Its a phenomenon (Traditional Cache) in Nova Scotia, Canada created by Go!Caching

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Hidden : 4/5/2009

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From this Geocache Site it is One of the Few Places in the World where you can witness a phenomenon

Maccan Tidal Park
This tidal habitat area is home to a variety of fresh and salt water bird species such as the Mallard, Wood and Black Ducks, Chickadees as well as various swallows and sparrows. Visitors will also see marsh grasses in the lower elevations such as arrowgrass and sea plantain. Trees in the surrounding areas include Red and Black Spruce with a few Hemlock and Aspen. While walking out to view the tidal basin, look for pheasants, muskrats and beavers.

Maccan Tidal Bore
The Bay of Fundy is Famous for its high tides. These tides are caused by the continual narrowing of the bay from its mouth near Digby to its upper reaches in Cumberland Basin. This narrowing constricts the flow entering the bay from the Atlantic Ocean causing the water to rise as it is forced up the Bay. The fresh water flowing out of the Maccan River holds back the tide briefly but the rising water reverses the river flow. This reversal combined with the narrowing of the river causes the wall of water or Tidal bore to rush up the river ahead of the incoming tide. Like the height of the tides, the height of the tidal bore is controlled by the gravitational pull of the moon. The highest bores occur when the moon is closet to earth, usually at or shortly after full moon.

Mud Become Marsh
Twice a day for the last 6,000 years, turbulent tides have rushed up the Bay of Fundy. The force of the tides ground the sandstone bedrock to sediment and carried loads of silt up the river that flow into Chignecto Bay and Cumberland Basin. Each tide left a thin layer of mud on the low-lying shore and riverbanks. As the centuries passed, the layers of silt gradually grew thicker until wide flats of mud lay above the water level during all but the highest tides. On these raised area, salt water cordgrass and other salt-tolerant plants grew. Their roots stabilized the mud and their stems trapped even more silt until a wide band of salt marsh was created between the dry upland and the tidal flats.

Tidal Bores & Tide Times (visit link)

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