If you visit a place with a tide and look in the back of nearly any magazine directed at tourists, you're likely to see a tide calendar. Since moving to Rocky Point/Puerto Penasco, I've seen probably a dozen. They are useful if you're planning a hike or a picnic, a seaside event like a wedding or if you're planning to do some boating. But they all seem to share one annoying trait - no legend.
Many visitors to oceanside locations originate from more landlocked areas, and not having grown up around the tide and tide calendars, they don't have a clue how to use one. A tool isn't much good if you don't know how to use it. So, with that in mind, I offer the following:
Along the left side of the calendar, you should see a column of vertical numbers. These indicate the number of feet the tide is in or out. Along the bottom you'll see times, these may be expressed in military time, in which case, 00 is midnight, 12 is noon, 20 is 8 pm, 22 is 10 pm, etc. There will be boxes that will usually contain the date and day of the week - just like a regular calendar.
Running through these calendar boxes will be a wavy vertical line. This is the business part of it. The wavy line will divide the box roughly in half, top to bottom. The bottom portion of any box is sand and the top portion is water. There, you've got it. Find your day and time and look at the picture. If the bottom, the sand, goes way out, then you've got a low tide. If there is little "sand" and lots of water, it's high tide.
Many visitors to oceanside locations originate from more landlocked areas, and not having grown up around the tide and tide calendars, they don't have a clue how to use one. A tool isn't much good if you don't know how to use it. So, with that in mind, I offer the following:
Along the left side of the calendar, you should see a column of vertical numbers. These indicate the number of feet the tide is in or out. Along the bottom you'll see times, these may be expressed in military time, in which case, 00 is midnight, 12 is noon, 20 is 8 pm, 22 is 10 pm, etc. There will be boxes that will usually contain the date and day of the week - just like a regular calendar.
Running through these calendar boxes will be a wavy vertical line. This is the business part of it. The wavy line will divide the box roughly in half, top to bottom. The bottom portion of any box is sand and the top portion is water. There, you've got it. Find your day and time and look at the picture. If the bottom, the sand, goes way out, then you've got a low tide. If there is little "sand" and lots of water, it's high tide.
In case you're still having trouble, here is a link to a tide calendar for Puerto Penasco. If you scroll down, you'll see the information written in words. http://www.mobilegeographics.com:81/locations/5145.html
Well I hope this clears it up. Enjoy the water!
Well I hope this clears it up. Enjoy the water!
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