Big Tides

We had some pretty big tides in the week before Christmas.  The highest tide was 19.4 feet and the lowest was -3.5, so the range was almost 23 feet.

 If you look closely, you can see the ramp to the float is actually higher at the float end, so we had to walk up to the float!

 The ramp on a more normal tide--the low lows were at night so we couldn't get a good shot of the -3.5 tide.

 The high tides are a good time to pull logs off the beaches.

 

This is a "volunteer"--a log that was actually floating free out in Chatham Strait.  This is a beauty--a "high floater" which means the wood is pretty dry.  It's great not having to work a log out of the sand and gravel and down the beach!