Captain Spare-time 74 Posted February 21, 2020 Report Share Posted February 21, 2020 I have a question regarding tides in Gulf St Vincent. I’ve been spending a bit of time down south these last couple of months (Wirrina) and seeing as how fishing from a boat (well, tinny) is still very new to me, I’m checking the weather reports regularly to see how windy it’s expected to be on my days off. What I haven’t been paying much attention to is the tide. Contrary to my user name (my mates would have you believe I do sweet FA), I don’t have a tonne of spare time and so as long as it’s not windy, I’m gonna try get out on the water. As I’m becoming a bit more familiar with the tinny and how to fish from it, I’ve started to look at tide times. When I check the wind on Weatherzone, it shows me conditions at Parawa. That’s a bit inland but seems to be pretty accurate for the Rapid Bay area. However, the tides given from Parawa are WAY different to what’s happening at Rapid Bay. It seems they’re the Victor Harbour tides. So, I’ve been checking the tide times of various area and I see some interesting readings. High tide for Monday afternoon are Outer Harbour : 6.08pm Brighton : 6.28pm Second Valley : 6.35pm That makes sense. The high tide sweeps into the gulf from the west and curls thru in a clockwise direction. But when I look around the corner of the Fleurieu Peninsula to what’s happening at Victor. I would have expected to see a high tide hit at around 7pm but no!! It’s a LOW tide there at 7.34pm. This brings me to my question (finally ). Does anyone know where I would find a map, a video, an animation etc that shows tidal movement in and around our gulf? I’ve done a good bit of googling but can’t seem to find anything simple likes that. ST. doobie 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
doobie 5,802 Posted February 21, 2020 Report Share Posted February 21, 2020 That is a hard one I can't find anything for you, but someone might know. Best I can come up with and it's not video etc. is this (which you may have seen already) - it has a few links or "?" that may help - but not really what you're after. Just click the places you want. https://tides4fishing.com/au/south-australia hardwick bay 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Captain Spare-time 74 Posted February 21, 2020 Author Report Share Posted February 21, 2020 Holy crap While that’s not exactly what I was after, it’s a super handy link / site There’s a TONNE of information there Thanks Doobie Much appreciated ST doobie 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Des 818 Posted February 28, 2020 Report Share Posted February 28, 2020 Work your way around spot to spot in the Gulf on here to get a picture of where and how the tides move http://www.bom.gov.au/australia/tides/#!/sa-second-valley keenfisho and doobie 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Captain Spare-time 74 Posted March 1, 2020 Author Report Share Posted March 1, 2020 On 29/02/2020 at 12:40 AM, Des said: Work your way around spot to spot in the Gulf on here to get a picture of where and how the tides move http://www.bom.gov.au/australia/tides/#!/sa-second-valley Cheers Des. I’ll check it out tomorrow. I’ve had a couple of shandies tonight and I’m feeling a little foggy ST doobie and Des 1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
doobie 5,802 Posted March 1, 2020 Report Share Posted March 1, 2020 8 hours ago, Captain Spare-time said: I’ve had a couple of shandies tonight and I’m feeling a little foggy I knew you'd fit right in to this forum Des and Captain Spare-time 1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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