The Turnagain Arm Boretide is one of the largest in the world. With heights of up to six feet and speeds up to 26 knots, it is surpassed only by the waters of the Bay of Fundi in Nova Scotia and the swift moving ocean tide going up the amazon river.

Many times we were out there on the barren, quick-sand like mud flats explorin' and playin'. Then we hear it comin'... like a freight train it sounds roaring along.

Once in the dead of winter, when it was about ten degrees F Bill Elliot and I were hit by a massive bore tide like the one in this video. Except we were in a canoe and there were large house size and car size icebergs in the water and beached in front of the roaring wall of water.

We barely escaped with our lives.

Then there are those like these guys who go out and meet it for fun.