Subject: [Tweeters] Gray's Harbor tides for Shorebird Festival
Date: Apr 26 10:45:01 2006
From: StahlfeldE at aol.com - StahlfeldE at aol.com


The Shorebird Festival web site says high tide is at 3:30 pm on Saturday,
and 4:20 pm on Sunday. I was curious to see how the tide varied throughout
Grays Harbor, so I checked using the Seattle Times link to tide tables.
Basically, high tide is within 15 minutes of those times throughout the bay,
starting earlier on the coast and later as the tide washes inshore.

On Saturday, high tide at Westport's Pt. Chehalis is at 3:22 pm (3:24 across
the entrance at Pt. Brown), at Bay City at 3:32, at Markham (John's River)
at 3:28, and at Aberdeen at 3:44. On Sunday high tide at Westport is at 4:11
pm (4:13 at Pt. Brown), 4:21 at Bay City, 4:17 at Markham, and 4:33 at
Aberdeen. High tide up the coast at Pt. Grenville is 25 minutes earlier than at
Westport.

Low tide at Aberdeen is 8:27 am and 8:27 pm on Saturday and 9:12 am and 9:11
am on Sunday, with Bay City 3 minutes later, Markham another 11 minutes
later, and Aberdeen another 21 minutes later. I have no idea why the order of
low tide is different from high tide.

The high tides at Aberdeen are +9.3 and +9.0, which is about two feet lower
than in January, which a sailing friend suggested as typical for the time of
highest tides.

Eric R. Stahlfeld
145 SW 155th St., Ste 101
Seattle, WA 98166