MONCTON – The Bay of Fundy’s famous tides are even higher this week. They reached their highest point in two decades on Tuesday.
According to Paul Gaudet, interpretive services manager at Hopewell Rocks, the tides reached at least 14.2 meters Tuesday, but they could have been even higher.
He said the cause is the so-called supermoon that happened on Sunday.
The excitement was apparent in Moncton Tuesday morning, as people lined the Riverfront Trail to watch the Tidal Bore.
Two surfers rode the bore as it came in around 11:15 a.m.
Carolina Laos, a tourist from Estonia, was among the observers.
“I think it was pretty incredible,” she said. “I had heard about it, but without seeing it, it was really hard to understand how it would actually look like.”
Meanwhile, Hopewell Rocks was bustling for high tide at 1:30 p.m. Pete Melgard from California took the chance to take a photo on the water-covered stairs that usually lead to the rocks.
“Dipped my feet in the Bay of Fundy at the high tide,” he said. “It’s really neat.”
Comments