Skookumchuck
Just Awesome Mon Jun 7th Skookumchuck Today was our planned visit to the Skookumchuck Narrows. The part of the northern Sunshine Coast where the ocean flows through a narrow funnel to fill and empty the Sechelt Inlet each tide. The Sechelt Inlet is a huge body of water that covers some 1500km2, and the tidal flows in and out are huge. "Each day, tides force large amounts of seawater through the narrows—200 billion US gallons (760,000,000 m3) of water on a 3-metre (9.8 ft) tide. The difference in water levels on either side of the rapids can exceed 2 metres (6.6 ft) in height. Current speeds can exceed 16 knots (30 km/h),[1] up to 17.68 knots (32.74 km/h).[2] Although it is sometimes claimed to be the fastest tidal rapids in the world,[3] Norway's Saltstraumen reaches speeds of 20 knots (37 km/h)." It is an awesome sight and sound and having seen it on the way in, the 'flow' wave, I rather like the idea of seeing it on the way out, the 'ebb' wave! So...