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Larry[_9_]

wrote:
On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:49:01 -0400, wrote:

I'm not familiar with your area. The bad is an estuary so it should be
mostly freshwater. It's a huge body of water so the tides can only
affect a small portion of the bay, right?

Uh...wrong.

Thanks for clearing that up.

BTW - Google is no help, I did look there.

You might try the NOAA weather buoys. They may have salinity numbers.
The ocean should be in the 37-38 PPT range as a guide. Contact
solution is about 5.
My little river is a true estuary and I get from about 20 in the end
of the dry season to low single digits in the rainy season. That is 3
miles up, what most people would call a creek, from a small bay that
is another 2 miles from the gulf..

That's interesting. I'll check it out.

Thanks!