Friday, January 9, 2009

Making Plans

It's been a while since I've had to do much in the way of calculating the differences in tide height and the time the tide turns, but I just finished checking the tables online.

I apparently skipped a groove and misremembered the predicted tide height.  It's only -1.7, but that's still pretty-dang'd good.  The good news is that the tide will be turning right around 4 PM, so it should still be fairly light out as the sun isn't due to set till after 5.  Woohoo!

Yeah, that's another challenge with tide pooling: The sun is often not yet up or already down when the "good" tide is available.  For example, there's a -1.6 on Sunday, but the lowest-low is almost right at sunset.

2 comments:

  1. Almost right at sunset is a great time for taking photos! But you have to be fast--

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  2. That means that Saturday I can focus on tide pool photos till the tide turns then head back up a ways and work on "art" photos for a while till the sun actually sets.

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