High tide is a wonderful, renewing event. Clear, clean, salty water moves over the sand banks. Oyster racks are submerged. Shallow rocky creeks fill with water and become navigable. The aerial roots of mangroves disappear under the unstoppable force.
Predatory fish invade the sun-warmed land.
Water need only be waist-deep to find the bottlenose dolphin fishing. Port Stephens has about eighty resident bottlenose dolphins. Any journey across the water usually involves a close encounter. Dolphins love to ride a boat's bow-wave. The pressure wave at the front of a boat gives them a boost.