Bay of Fundy Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
region of New Brunswick, Canada
About Bay of Fundy
The tidal range is famous as the Bay of Fundy acts as a funnel, directing massive amounts of tidal energy to one point; this generates the region's famously large high tides. The tidal range in the Bay of Fundy is about 13 metres (43 ft). (The average tidal range worldwide is about 1 metre.) In one 12-hour tidal cycle, about 100 billion tonnes of water flows in and out of the bay, which is twice as much as the combined flow of all the rivers of the world over the same period. Most of the rivers have a tidal bore, a wave front of the incoming tide that "bores" its way up a river against its normal flow. Notable ones include those on the Maccan, St. Croix, and Kennetcook rivers. The Petitcodiac River has one of the world's largest tidal bores, up to 2 m high. In 2013 surfers rode it a record
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