Link here.
But our barbershops remain closed.
And then there was this:
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Last week or thereabouts I was reading a biography of Wyndham Lewis where I came across the Bay of Fundy. A day later I was reading Fortey's book on evolution and came across the Bay of Fundy again. Had I not been reading the Wyndham Lewis biography I would have completely missed the Fortey reference. That was last week or thereabouts. Now, of all things, I'm sitting her watching
TCM, 3:00 p.m. CT, May 3, 2020, and out of the blue, a little vignette on Nova Scotia and a fairly lengthy segment on the Bay of Fundy. Truly amazing.
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The Bay of Fundy.
Sail down the St Croix River, which forms part of the border between Maine, US / New Brunswick, Canada, sail through the Passamaquoddy Bay, and then make a hard turn to port, on a 45° heading, to enter the Bay of Fundy, located between New Brunswick to the west-northwest and Nova Scotia to the east-southeast.
Link here.
The Bay of Fundy is one of the 7 wonders of North America. The highest tides on earth, the rarest whales in the world, semi-precious minerals and dinosaur fossils; all this convinced an international panel of experts in 2014 to choose the Bay of Fundy as one of the natural wonders of the world.
From wiki: The average tidal range worldwide is about 3 feet 3 inches. The tidal range in the Bay of Fundy is about 43 feet.
Tides are semidiurnal, meaning they have two highs and two lows each day[2] with about six hours and 13 minutes between each high and low tide. Some tides are higher than others depending on environmental conditions.
Because of tidal resonance in the funnel-shaped bay, the tides that flow through the channel are very powerful. In one 12 hour tidal cycle, about 110 billion short tons of water flows in and out of the bay, which is twice as much as the combined total flow of all the rivers of the world over the same period.
For the Bay of Fundy whales,
see this link.
