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Island View Beach is located on the Eastern Cordova shore of the Saanich Peninsula, near Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Much of the southern part of the foreshore make up the public Island View Beach Regional Park. The Tsawout First Nation has a reservation fronting much of the northern end of the beach.
Tidal range is the difference in height between high tide and low tide. Tides are the rise and fall of sea levels caused by gravitational forces exerted by the Moon and Sun, by Earth's rotation and by centrifugal force caused by Earth's progression around the Earth-Moon barycenter. Tidal range depends on time and location.
Lloyd Harbor Tide Mill: Tide mill Date unknown Lloyd Harbor, New York: Van Wyck-Lefferts Tide Mill: Tide mill: About 1793 The Van Wyck-Lefferts Tide Mill is a historic tide mill located at Lloyd Harbor in Suffolk County, New York. It was built about 1793 and is a 3+1⁄2-story, gable-roofed, timber-framed rectangular building little altered ...
A tidal island is a raised area of land within a waterbody, which is connected to the larger mainland by a natural isthmus or man-made causeway that is exposed at low tide and submerged at high tide, causing the land to switch between being a promontory/peninsula and an island depending on tidal conditions.
Pirates Cove Marine Provincial Park is a provincial park on De Courcy Island in British Columbia, Canada.. The area of the park was historically used by local First Nations, with shell middens indicating their presence up to 3,000 years before the present day.
The last few weeks of the year can be a busy and stressful time. Here’s how to focus on what really matters this holiday season, according to experts.
Gulf Islands National Park Reserve is a national park located on and around the Gulf Islands in British Columbia, Canada.In the National Parks System Plan, this park provides representation of the Strait of Georgia Lowlands natural region, the only place in Canada with a Mediterranean climate of dry, sunny summers and mild, wet winters, the result of a rain shadow effect from surrounding ...
Newcastle Island (Saysutshun) is accessible only by water. A foot-passenger ferry crosses in ten minutes from downtown Nanaimo at Maffeo Sutton Park to the southern end of the island. It is also a popular destination for kayakers and other boaters. In the summer at low tide, you can walk across the narrow straits separating it from Protection ...