Description
All about the Tidal Bore! By Antony "Yep" Colas, inveterate traveler/surfer for over 30 years around the world. For a scientist, it's a tidal surge. For a surfer or a kayaker, it is a long soft wave that breaks (or not) for tens of kilometers. For a poet, it is an incredible encounter between the fresh water which flows and the salt water which flows back. And for you, it is a wave that rises at high tides from certain rivers whose mouths form a shallow, funnel-shaped estuary. It's also a clepsydra, a kind of fascinating aquatic clock! Whether you are a spectator on the bank or an aquatic practitioner, waiting for the tidal bore remains a unique experience because the pressure takes several hours, even several days, to build towards a precise, completely inexorable climax. Like the train, the tidal bore always arrives eventually. But he can wait. The accompanying atmospheres offer strong sensory perceptions: the morning mists, the mirror effect of the surface, the intensity of sounds, the smells of the undergrowth, the sunrises and sunsets in the branches, the light selenite... Without forgetting the incredible mosaic of those who follow it (or flee it): men, mammals, fish, birds... Barre, Baan, Benak, Bono, Chao, Pororoca, Tidal Bore: more than 40 names in the world to designate this prodigious palpitation of the tide, which manifests itself here and there in 25 countries. And among the 117 rivers concerned, France, with its numerous estuaries and its formidable tidal ranges, appears as a hotspot for this natural (and free) spectacle.
Publisher : Editions YEP; Illustrated edition (November 29, 2017)
Language : French
Paperback : 216 pages (0.8Kg)
ISBN-13 : 978-2951016224