With all the rain, the low atmospheric pressure and the spring tides we are seeing evidence of very high high tides – a king tide. Michal was able to touch the top of the piling.
On that piling is a tide gauge that was set up by a four students for their Group 4 project. Although it is not ‘calibrated’, I suspect they did not see such a high during their sampling.
Check out the height of the water under the ramp to the lower floor of the floating building:
And the angle of the ramp to the upper floor:
For comparison, I’ll post additional photos of extremely low tides when they occur.
Tags: king tide, Pearson College dock, tides, year 41
Pearson College Marine Science 
January 23, 2015 at 6:11 am |
amazing! Never seen the tide that high at Pearson.
February 17, 2015 at 6:28 am |
[…] As promised, here are some photos of a low tide (0.6 m on Sunday 15 February 2015) for comparison to the very high tide on 10 December 2014. […]