How To Use Low tide In A Sentence
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It lives subtidally (from the high water mark, which is rarely inundated, to shoreline areas that are permanently submerged), or occasionally intertidally (the area that is exposed to the air at low tide and underwater at high tide).
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At low tide you can make it all the way back to town along the beach.
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It is low tide, which will help to carry the swimmers out.
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Masses are deposited in tidal channels or shallow pools that retain water at low tide, and are secured in place by a long sand-mucus tether buried firmly in the substrate.
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The new pipeline runs straight across the edge of this very large sandbank, at one point only thirty feet from the surface at low tide.
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Yesterday at low tide, silt shut the slough like trap, and mud stranded boats on docks perched high above water.
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Black bears may be seen best by boat in May and June, as they forage for crabs and fish along shorelines at low tide.
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And then there was a gorgeous sunset over Chalkwell - a red sky illuminating the mudflats at low tide - I really wished that I had had my camera.
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The causeway to the island is only accessible at low tide.
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NorthLink blamed the exceptionally low tides and easterly gales, which left an insufficient depth of water at Aberdeen for vessels.
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Most anywhere on the long expanse of the north shore side of the Cape which uncovers at low tides to expose sand flats can be productive.
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He had begun to dig diligently along the low tideline and had captured two clams.
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Miles of sand are exposed at low tide.
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Up to c. 1700, Britain's ports had been largely natural coastal or riverside sites, sometimes with quays and wharfs for lading, and beaching vessels at low tide.
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I tell them things my grandparents taught me: how to behave on the rocks collecting food at low tide, and how to make a kete.
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There's a sea cave to play in at low tide.
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The dhow exits the lagoon just after low tide, going against the now-incoming current but avoiding the tidal race that forms on an outgoing tide.
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An astonishing diversity of life dwells in the crystal-clear pools that format low tide along America's Pacific coast.
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Several dead beluga whales washed ashore recently in Alaska after dozens were temporarily stranded on mud flats during low tide.
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Isopods and amphipods spend low tide buried in wrack, where variation in temperature and humidity is strongly damped relative to the exposed intertidal surface.
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At Kew, there can be as little as three feet of water during low tide, while a high tide results in Hammersmith Bridge becoming almost impassable.
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The most important of these would be the initiation of a survey to examine the deepening of the harbour channel to a depth five metres below low tide level.
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The banks are still perforated in places by flapped devices which allow the outflow of rainwater at low tide, while preventing inundation by the incoming tidal surge.
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The police helicopter is doing sweeps of the fast-flowing river at low tide.
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The narrow road follows the edge of the fjord-like Loch Long which can run like a river, especially at its narrowest point when filling up on the flow tide or draining on the ebb.
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The middle regions of the beach are surf-beaten, but the sheltered southern corner, at low tide, reveals fine sands thickly populated with razor shells, tellins, surf clams and sand mason worms.
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It was low tide and in the far distance, perhaps a full mile away, lay the distant glint of the sea.
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The forest is best approached at mid to low tide across the cove, up steps and through grass and woodland.
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(Low tide exposes the soft mud of the salt marsh.
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Low tide on a recent morning at Traeth Coch, or Red Wharf Bay, saw yachts high and dry on chocks as seabirds swirled below the radiant cloudlets.
Country diary: Anglesey
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At low tide there were acres of mud with screeching gulls scavenging; and at high tide steamerfuls of tourists charging past - with or without thumping music - for a quick trip up through the half-tide lock at Richmond into deeper waters above.
Second Wind
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The causeway to the island is only accessible at low tide.
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A nearby rock, the Haystack, has a colony of seals, of which you can see a dozen or so at low tide.
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Some people make sport of wading the Waddenzee at low tide wearing big rubber boots.
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Most places in the ocean usually experience two high tides and two low tides each day (semidiurnal tide), but some locations experience only one high and one low tide each day (diurnal tide).
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The day we have a low tide during which sea doesn't ‘recede’ is the day of a serious apocalypse.
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Make sure that you visit here at low tide to enjoy the wonderful sandy beach and explore the caves.
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An unusually low tide for the second year in a row means large parts of the Italian city are inaccessible.
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On the other hand, when the sun is so placed as to give us a low tide while the moon is producing a high tide, the net result that we actually experience is merely the excess of the lunar tide over the solar tide; these are what we call neap tides.
Time and Tide A Romance of the Moon
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In fact there was a lull during low tide after lunch the next day.
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Low tide left vast mudflats across which landing ships and landing craft could not beach and amphibian tractors could not crawl.
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The narrow road follows the edge of the fjord-like Loch Long which can run like a river, especially at its narrowest point when filling up on the flow tide or draining on the ebb.
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There's a sea cave to play in at low tide.
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It is a blue-green alga, a primitive plant of the same class as seaweeds or the green slime seen on rocks and jetties when uncovered by the sea at low tide.
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Sometimes it almost frightens me to think that they are grandchildren, MY grandchildren — I, who only the other day, it would seem, was as heart-free, leg-free, care-free a girl as ever bestrode a horse, or swam in the big surf, or gathered opihis at low tide, or laughed at a dozen lovers.
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Thick walls ring the medieval old town, rising from golden sands at low tides and surging surf at high.
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You can walk across to the island at low tide.
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I was beaten and buffeted, smashed under by the great San Pablo whitecaps, and strangled by the hollow tide-rip waves which flung themselves into my eyes, nose, and mouth.
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There is always a good head of water maintained in the navigational channel with a maximum depth approaching 12 ft at low tide.
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At low tides, reflections from the sea cause interference in the broadband signal and can even cancel the signal out altogether.
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Another example is the Kei River which might not have the same exposed sandbars at low tide but is so shallow that the ferry cannot operate at spring low tide.
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Low tide would be at three twenty-one the following morning; an hour after daybreak and two hours before dawn.
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At low tide in the estuary, cows graze on the marshes.
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At very low tides they scramble dangerously round the exposed, rusting bones.
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The thinking behind the concept is that plants, like high and low tides, have similar cycles that correspond to the ‘rising and falling of sap’, brought on by the cycles of the moon.
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Their game is mud; skipping and jumping across the shore at low tide, mudskippers give new meaning to the phrase ‘fish out of water.’
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It was low tide and in the far distance, perhaps a full mile away, lay the distant glint of the sea.
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Low tide air temperature is probably less of a factor for sea stars than for whelks, as sea stars can avoid locations where body temperatures are elevated, whereas whelk body temperatures are closely related to air temperatures.
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I thought of our pilgrimages out of the city, the slow tide of traffic to the shore or family visits, a cincture of security and welcome girding the suburbs and beyond.
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At high tide the sea covers the rocks, but at low tide it uncovers them.
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The rockweed shown at left, Fucus distichous, visible at low tide at the Berkeley Marina in California, is somewhat smaller.
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There's a sea cave to play in at low tide.
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There's a sea cave to play in at low tide.
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One year a group missed the low tide and had to cross by the road causeway.
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Miles of sand are exposed at low tide.
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A nice deep channel became evident in front of camp toward low tide and the choice was to beach the boats or snig them further down the bank.
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My brother and I would walk through the pools at low tide and fish for paua and crayfish.
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One late afternoon at low tide a hundred big sharks passed the beach near the mouth of a tidal river in a feeding frenzy.
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It is low tide, which will help to carry the swimmers out.
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Flames were extinguished quickly by the fire brigade, despite firefighters being initially thwarted by the lack of a hydrant on the private estate, and the low tide level of the Thames.
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At low tide, you can see all of the shells and barnacles between the low and high water marks.
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I thought of our pilgrimages out of the city, the slow tide of traffic to the shore or family visits, a cincture of security and welcome girding the suburbs and beyond.
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We have had another go at marbling: this time we used carrageen moss, which smells like the shore at low tide, and is fairly icky, but works.
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Up to c. 1700, Britain's ports had been largely natural coastal or riverside sites, sometimes with quays and wharfs for lading, and beaching vessels at low tide.
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Seals lie on the rocks at low tide.
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Yesterday at low tide, silt shut the slough like trap, mud stranded boats on docks perched high above water.
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At low tide it's empty, a desolate moonscape of gray glacial silt dotted by glistening tide pools.
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Rudloe has launched Operation Noah's Ark, using his four-acre facility an hour south of Tallahassee to preserve more than 350 different specimens – everything from sharks to starfish, shrimp and batfish – in an environment that includes a grassland and duplicates high and low tides.
'Operation Noah's Ark' Tries To Rescue Gulf Sealife
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In fact there was a lull during low tide after lunch the next day.
THE LAST OF THE GENTLEMEN ADVENTURERS: Coming of Age in the Arctic
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You can walk across to the island at low tide.
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The huge flat and hard sands at low tide could have persuaded the Germans to mount attacks via Southern Ireland.
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It was low tide at St Catherine's Dock, and the Thames was about to meet its match.
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At Kircubbin Bay, people were out at low tide with their rakes, collecting cockles and winkles.
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Winds were gusty which is why I stopped on the alee side of this low tide peninsula.
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Low tide reveals mile upon mile of sandy beaches and mudflats that provide rich pickings for the thousands of wading birds and wildfowl from neighbouring Leighton Moss and other parts of the bay.
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The water always recedes during low tide, to greater or lesser degrees.
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Always keep in mind the tide will continue to run after the listed high tide and out after the low tide.
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When the light is low, usually at dusk and at dawn, this shy bird emerges from the cordgrass at the edges of the marsh to feed on invertebrates in the mudflats during low tide.
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I've been to mud flats where there's a six-foot difference between high tide and low tide.
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Low tide exposes many characteristic saltmarsh plants that provide a vegetarian menu, which is equally vital for the birds, including sea arrowgrass, scurvy grass and sea lavender.
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The beach at low tide stretches so far that to go for a paddle you must patter for a quarter of an hour across the stripy rippled sand, hardened by the retreating tide.
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Miles of sand are exposed at low tide.
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Strong winds and low tides kept the ship on the slipway for an extra 24 hours.
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Got to grab them before sunset, but low tide was not until sixish.
Shucking oysters, mucking words
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At low tide you can make it all the way back to town along the beach.
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Then during the spring months, the mesh bags are planted on creek banks during low tide.
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The cunjevoi is a sea squirt that is commonly found along the low tide mark on rocky shores.
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The causeway to the island is only accessible at low tide.
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It was found by a mudlark – one of the small army of amateur archaeologists who scour the beaches and mudflats of the river at low tide.
Medieval roof finial found beside Thames
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Near to them is Lindisfarne or Holy Isle which can only be reached by way of a causeway at low tide.
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The hot air was redolent with the pungent perfumes of low tide coming from the piles of oysters, an indescribably fundamental smell—luscious, fresh—in rough comparison, thought Jon, not so different from other strong and lovely earth smells, like cut grass, or freshly manured farm fields.
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Don't miss the walk across the causeway to the Île de Callot - or the low tide for your return.
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So far we've had a couple of waves up to 1-1.5m in various parts of NZ so far, however, it's low tide at the moment, and it's mostly just being classed as a 'marine threat', apart from, I think the Chatham Islands and banks peninsula.
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The causeway to the island is only accessible at low tide.
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At low tide such hidey-holes are usually visible and it's a good idea to have a recce before the estuary begins to fill again.
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At low tide, it is possible (but messy) to hike across exposed mudflats around Juneau .
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Canadian poet noted for his ebullient nature poems, including the collection Low Tide on Grand Pr ? 1893.
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Another time, a bit later, some other (drunk) Canadian stripped down to his grundies and went for a 'mud bath' in the mudflats exposed by the low tide .. someone went out and rescued him from his own stupidity.
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At low tide fish leap from pool to pool in the makatea-like lagoon floor and you don't even have to travel far to get kai.
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It was dry at low tide and filled quickly as the tide came in, the sides of the bay were stony and the bay itself was sandy with large mussel beds.
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A deep water basin will be dredged in the Thames to ensure vessels do not ground at low tide and the new jetty will be extended forward by about ten metres.
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Soil as a result of low tide, the Dutch accepted the Gauls invented by the French sabot, and hundreds of years in the history of the Netherlands, given its typical characteristics.
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At low tide sea oats and spartina grasses bend before the breeze.
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With low tides, tangle is the first of the kelps to be exposed by the tide.
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Isopods and amphipods spend low tide buried in wrack, where variation in temperature and humidity is strongly damped relative to the exposed intertidal surface.
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Currently, on certain tides, the ferries have to moor in the harbour and passengers are shuttled to the pier in smaller passenger boats or timetables have to be changed to accommodate the low tides.
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You come from unquiet country into rooms the marshes empty to at low tide. Region of seed kind.
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Pismo clams are found in knee-high water at low tide, burrowed about 6 inches below the sand.
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Low tide reveals mile upon mile of sandy beaches and mudflats that provide rich pickings for the thousands of wading birds and wildfowl from neighbouring Leighton Moss and other parts of the bay.
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Of course, we would be told that the river has now silted up and that at low tide it would be impossible.
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They dug for shellfish at low tide.
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I would miss the birds: a pair of furious peregrine falcons, a northern goshawk with a nest at the top of a deformed spruce leaning over the water, the three crow pals that worked the rockweed at low tide eviscerating sea urchins, then picked ripe berries on the hillside for dessert.
Bird Cloud
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Seals lie on the rocks at low tide.
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The circle was only exposed at low tide, for two to five hours.
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Tiny periwinkles, found in profusion in intertidal areas, are gastropods; as are giant tun shells from the deep waters and the quiet limpets who cling to rocks at low tide.
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The island can only be reached at low tide .
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Whimbrels feed singly or in small groups on mudflats at low tide.
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Your Inuit guides will show you to Payne Bay Fjord, where low tides improve your chances of landing a lunker.
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Make sure that you visit here at low tide to enjoy the wonderful sandy beach and explore the caves.
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