Where can I walk the ocean floor in BC, PEI or Nova Scotia, like Hopewell Rocks?
If I can't visit New Brunswick, where else can I walk ocean floors due to tidal erosion, like in Hopewell Rocks?
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Hopewell Rocks has a large amount of ocean floor to explore because the tidal variation in the Bay of Fundy is extremely large, among the largest in the world. There are areas (not as spectacularly possessive of scenery, mind) in Nova Scotia on the Fundy shore, across the bay, that have similar effects. See here for some details. Note that the most significant effect is toward the northern end or bottom of the bay, where the tide gets concentrated the most. The further southeast you go, the less intense the tidal variation is. Still, the effects are significant much further down the bay, even in areas like St. Stephen and St. Andrews, NB and Digby, NS.
On the B.C. coast, the tidal variation is much less intense. Ocean floor is certainly uncovered at low tide, but not to anywhere near the significant degree that is seen in Fundy. These areas are much less deeply covered in water during high tide. (It can vary by up to 16m or 53' at the Minas Basin at the end of the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia/New Brunswick.)
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Where can you walk on the ocean floor in Nova Scotia?
At Burntcoat Head Park in Nova Scotia, you can explore the ocean floor while the tide is out! Burntcoat Head is just over an hour's drive north of Halifax, and the park looks out over the famous Bay of Fundy.Where can I walk on the ocean floor?
The Hopewell Rocks is located along the Bay of Fundy, home of the world's highest tides. It is an iconic and popular place for ocean tidal exploration, approximately 2 hours' drive from the City of Saint John.When can you walk on the ocean floor Hopewell Rocks?
Open from late May until mid October, visitors to Hopewell Rocks Provincial Park can walk on the ocean floor at the base of these giant formations three hours before and after low tide. At Hopewell Cape, high tide can be anywhere from 9.75 to 14 metres (32 to 46 feet).Can you walk on the ocean floor at the Bay of Fundy?
As a general rule, the ocean floor is accessible for exploring three hours before and three hours after low tide. Therefore during Fundy's low tide cycle you are literally able to walk, and explore, the ocean floor.Hopewell Rocks, walking on the ocean floor, Nova Scotia, July 2015
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