King Tide on Mud Bay

Posting a King Tide photo is becoming an annual event for the Mud Bay blog. This is my third. The picture was taken at the north end of Mud Bay a few minutes before this morning’s official high tide (7:45 AM, 13.6 feet). I don’t have a GPS so I can’t be more specific on location. The small bulkhead provides a rough yardstick for measuring the water’s height. It’s rare to see water on its land side.

To avoid any hint of plagiarism, I revised my original photo caption, which quite accurately said “It was a dark and stormy morning.” That’s the Mud Cat in the photo. Normally he likes to patrol on the top of the bulkhead but not this morning. For the record it was a dark and stormy morning.

King Tides are higher-than-normal tides that occur once or twice a year in the winter when the moon is at its closest point to the earth and the gravitational pulls of the sun and moon are acting together.