We're even part of the famed Bay of Fundy

Jnana Hodson

May 30

Maybe you've heard of it, the place of the world's most extreme tides, up to 53 feet every six or so hours, meaning about six feet hourly on average or up to 12-plus in certain time windows.

If you swim, you know that's way over your head.

So here's a little perspective.

Most U.S. maps cut out nearby Canada, leaving little sense of how much lies east of Maine and not just north. That's anything beyond Portland, essentially, yet not that far north of Boston.
Typically excised from maps of Maine, the big island of Grand Manan is essentially as lengthy as Martha's Vineyard but with much more substantial cliffs and an undeniably working fisherman economy. To get there, you need a ferry hop or two from Canada. And that's saying nothing of its craggy inhabitants. It's definitely on my bucket list.
Technically, I dwell on one of the subsidiary waters. Fundy Bay itself is about 55 miles wide just south of here, pointing to another place renowned for its scallops. Or is that also east? In other words, Fundy's big.
The bay's positions of Maine and New Brunswick, on one side, and Nova Scotia, on the other, act as a funnel that intensifies Atlantic currents in and out of the channel. It's a long story but likely worthwhile for certain nerds, especially once you see how it shapes up on the dinner plate. The intensity of the record tides does have some techies well as others drooling.
That leads to the possibilities of electrical generation. Mainers would definitely welcome a reduction in our electrical bill. Wind, solar, and tidal power generation are all rising as important sources.
We are mused by one local craftsman who proclaims her studio the Clay of Fundy. She's hardly alone. You'd be amused or quite critical of the range of wordplay prompted by the Fundy word.
It has rivers that reverse their flow, a phenomenon known as tidal bore.
The bay can report up to ten kinds of whales every summer.
For water to get from the mouth of the bay to its crown can take up to 13 hours.
Its ecosystem is said to rival the Amazon's. Just ask scuba divers.