Does anyone know what a tidal bore is

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  talesin

  Yes, Ts, it's very cool ... we did the 'park the car and put it n neutral' thing ... and it appeared that we were being pulled uphill.

  y/w prologos ,,, also, the salt water is a different density than the fresh. The 'Reversing Falls' in Saint John, NB, looked very eerie in the video I watched on youtube. Even more (for me) is the Bay of Fundy shore. The clay is red, and the cliffs are 60' high, or about 28 metres, I believe. The tide rises by that much! The knowledge that you are standing on a piece of land that will be covered in 60 feet of water in 6 or 7 hours, is mind-blowing and awesome!
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  Truthseeker677

  I swear if any of our Ameriacan freinds ever seen a tidal bore or a reversing falls or a great display of the Northern lights They couldn't help but be moved by it.
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  Phizzy

  In Southern England the River Severn has a tremendous tidal bore, the brave ride it on their boards, and shoot a hell of a way upstream/inland.

  If you are a fair way up stream, you can hear it coming befroe you see it !
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  cliff

  Severn Bore link:

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKA39LQOIck

  The water does not move - it is an energy wave riding ON the water.

  Cliff
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  Band on the Run

  When I was an early teen, the entire family took a trip to Nova Scotia for a convention. My mom wanted to see the tidal bore. If I recall correctly, the govt. warned American tourists to leave for higher ground. Maine and Nova Scotia were so beautiful.
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  prologos

  cliff thank you for that point, and the link. of course in that long up-river wave, no ocean water reaches inland, but at a given point the surface water can actually be seen moving upstream, a really FLATTENED rotating energy package.

  To think the JOY mankind has now to use those waves, that energy, which existed for millenia, just watched, --now surfed, giving great exitement,--in oneness with nature. havinga ball
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  jgnat

  I know what a tidal bore is, even though I've never seen it. Some Canadian experiences that have touched me (besides the Auroria Borealis):

  The red dunes of PEI.

  

  The Columbia Icefields.

  

  Muskeg country.

  

  Woodland Buffalo.

  
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  OnTheWayOut

  I think this is a tidal bore:

  
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  jgnat

  The Canadian side of the Niagara falls is spectacular.

  
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  Twitch

  A tidal bore is a slowly moving standing wave node where a river current meets an ocean tidal current, the latter overcoming the former by a large margin in certain circumstances. There is only a tidal bore when the tide is coming in, not when it's going out, naturally.

  I've been to the Bay of Fundy, St John's Reversing Falls, and a couple other places with similar phenomena.

  Magnetic Hill in Moncton was cool but is only an optical illusion, albeit a good one.