Highest tides of the year will take place this weekend
Every morning and afternoon for the past year, Tsawwassen resident Peter Scurr has come to the shoreline of Boundary Bay to photograph the beach near the U. S. border.
“I take 10 or 15 shots,” he said in an interview Friday. “The site, the location, stays the same, but the landscape changes. Right now, the sun is at the furthest south, and you’ll watch it move all the way over to White Rock over the next six months.”
On Friday morning, the shoreline heralded something special for Scurr, the beginning of the highest tides of the year.
According to Tanja Gundling, a hydrographer with the Canadian Hydrographic Service in Sidney, a high tide of 5.045 metres should occur around Vancouver this morning at 8: 17 a. m. High tides will continue through Monday morning.
In preparation for the event, some waterfront residents in Boundary Bay have stacked sandbags along the dikes fronting their property.
The municipality of Delta has positioned large concrete blocks at the foot of 1A Avenue and, further north, sandbags at publicaccess points to the bay.
But wind and waves on Friday did not flood homes in the area as in February 2006. The province paid out $ 1 million in flood damages that year.
“The tide’s obviously high,” said Scurr, who posts his photos on his Facebook page. “If the wind picks up and comes from the south, we’re in trouble. But I don’t see that happening.”
To check out the high tides in your area, visit: waterlevels. gc. ca/ eng/ find/ zone/ 10.