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Post by Ali on Aug 21, 2011 12:26:23 GMT 1
We're in for a big one on 31st August (Wed) with one of the highest coefficients of the year - 112.
The sea will reach circa 13.80 metres at around 9.27am and when it comes back in again @ 21.44 it will reach around 14.20 metres.
If you miss this one and want to see the high tides anywhere along Mont Saint Michel, Saint-Malo, Saint Brieuc etc make a note of Thurs 29th Sept when the tide will be coeff 115.
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Post by Madame Moorhen on Sept 2, 2011 8:00:37 GMT 1
HERE it is! I KNEW I'd seen this somewhere. ;D Went to Port Mer yesterday (just oop road from Cancale) and noticed the tide was really rather high when we arrived - only a little strip of beach left. Had lunch then went for a paddle on the beach and thought, gosh it's gone down a long way. The water was all murky and beige and the 'sand' was quite black and muddy like - wasn't really very nice paddling but people were still swimming in it and this is very probably gonna be my last paddle of the year! By the time we'd finished wandering around looking at little crabs and things the tide had gone out tons more and loads of the boats moored there were high and dry - I've been to Port Mer lots of times and never seen that.  Then I remembered I'd read somewhere about the special marees around about now so guessed that was it! |
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Post by Ali on Sept 2, 2011 8:48:45 GMT 1
The best ones really are the spring tides. Thats when you see hoards of people in the bays at lowest tides collecting mussels, oysters etc etc. The tides to really watch are the ones where low tide is lowest and high tide highest ( aka highest co-efficient) Here is a site that shows it the best I've seen yet. The chart under the diagram shows predictions by dates, then LW and HW, then the times of day, then the meterage of LW and HW. LW = low water HW = high water easytide.ukho.gov.uk/easytide/EasyTide/ShowPrediction.aspx?PortID=1614&PredictionLength=7I started to get more interested in this since kayaking on the Couesnon. At low tide we grounded  |
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Post by Madame Moorhen on Sept 4, 2011 6:49:47 GMT 1
I have wondered how you kayak out to the Mont given that at any time that I've been there, the river is down to a trickle in mud flats..... ;D
Or have they already started the dredging of the bay cos it's been a few years since we went there (thankfully, couldn't face doing it again!).
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