On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 03:41:02 GMT, wrote:

Thanks for the info. I thought that Fla. might have even more than that,
but, I think Fla's coastline is relatively straight. I just found out on
the WWW that our neighbor, Maine, has a lot more miles of coastline:

"Maine's coastline is long, craggy and has many inlets. What looks like 228
miles on a map, is 3,478 miles of tidal coastline in reality, including the
offshore islands."

The difference being Maine's shoreline was measured at low tide
whereas Florida's was measured at high tide.

bb

Maine has a large tidal difference, so it can effect the amout of shoreline,
Fla. is about 2 ft and really doesn't effect the amount of shoreline..


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On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 03:41:02 GMT, wrote:

Thanks for the info. I thought that Fla. might have even more than that,
but, I think Fla's coastline is relatively straight. I just found out on
the WWW that our neighbor, Maine, has a lot more miles of coastline:

"Maine's coastline is long, craggy and has many inlets. What looks like
228
miles on a map, is 3,478 miles of tidal coastline in reality, including
the
offshore islands."

The difference being Maine's shoreline was measured at low tide
whereas Florida's was measured at high tide.

bb

"John Smith" wrote in message
news:NhR4c.9220$_w.267962@attbi_s53...

Maine has a large tidal difference, so it can effect the amout of
shoreline,
Fla. is about 2 ft and really doesn't effect the amount of shoreline..



Anyone know why this is so? The marina in Massachusetts where we used to
keep our boat had 10 to 11 foot tides. The marina here in Jupiter FL has
2-3 foot tides. (Good thing, otherwise half of Florida would disappear at
high tide, I think).

Seems like I remember somebody telling me that there is no tide at the
equator. Are tides typically greater the further north or south from the
equator?

Eisboch (wondering about this)