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King tides are the highest tides. They are naturally occurring, predictable events. Tides are the movement of water across Earth's surface caused by the combined effects of the gravitational forces exerted by the Moon, Sun, and the rotation of Earth which manifest in the local rise and fall of sea levels.
The town of Palm Beach is alerting residents that the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration is predicting extreme high tides to peak 2.5 to 3 feet above the average lowest tide ...
Willapa Bay is fairly shallow: more than half of its surface area lies in the intertidal zone, and half of the volume of water inside it enters and leaves with every tide. The bay is an estuary formed when the Long Beach Peninsula, a long sand spit from the Columbia River to the south, partially enclosed the estuaries of several smaller rivers.
The Long Beach Peninsula is known for its continuous sand beach 28 miles (45 km) in extent on the Pacific Ocean side, claimed to be the longest beach in the United States. It is a popular vacation destination for people from Seattle, Washington (165 miles (266 km) distant) and Portland, Oregon (115 miles (185 km) distant).
In the isolated non-developed cove at Taylor Point, there is a waterfall that falls directly onto the beach where tide pools are also featured on the north end. It is located on Olympic National Park 's Pacific Ocean coastline, reached by a trail through the forest from near the Quileute Indian Reservation town of La Push.
Shine Tidelands State Park is a 249-acre (101 ha) Washington state park located in Jefferson County, seven miles (11 km) south of Port Ludlow.The park has 5,000 feet (1,500 m) of shoreline on Bywater Bay adjacent to the west end of the Hood Canal Bridge and offers activities including picnicking, fishing, shellfish harvesting, beachcombing, birdwatching, windsurfing, and wildlife viewing. [1]
The Long Beach depot was built between First and Second Streets on the east side of the track, which ran north along "B" Street. [6] Two hotels were constructed near the depot by Tinker and later the Hanniman family; the latter was destroyed in a fire on December 6, 1914. [7] The Driftwood Hotel was another common Long Beach destination.