Cairns’ lowest tide of the year dropped as low as 0.1 metre

August has kicked off with the lowest tide recorded for the calander year with double island almost doubling in size. SEE THE DRONE FOOTAGE.

August has kicked off with a wet start with “nuisance” rainfall on the forecast for the month.

The Far North is set for another week of rain, with Bureau of Meterology spokeswoman Kimba Wong saying there would be a chance of showers each day for the rest of the week.

“It’s a pretty similar sort of pattern from day to day, largely driven by southeast winds along the coast,” Ms Wong said.
“There’s a bit of breeze around and humidity in the air with showers possible, on and off for the next seven days. It’s nuisance rainfall around cane crush areas.”

Temperatures are expected to remain stable with a low of 20 degrees and high of 27 degrees expected for this week.

The lowest tide of the year has seen a lot of sand exposed on Palm Cove beach and left the jetty pylons high and dry. Sisters Alyse Tyrkalo, 8, and Ella Tyrkalo, 10, play on barnacle encrusted rocks that are usually underwater on Palm Cove beach. Picture: Brendan Radke

“The long range forecast shows wetter than average weather and slightly warmer than average daylight temperatures and perhaps early next week we’ll see a slight decrease in shower potential,” she said.

Meanwhile Cairns has recorded one of its lowest tides of the year, as tides dropped as low as 0.10m.

The lowest tide of the year has seen a lot of sand exposed on Palm Cove beach and left the jetty pylons high and dry. Picture: Brendan Radke

At 2.35pm on Tuesday afternoon, Cairns recorded the low tide after a high at 8.20am of 2.24 metres.

Canadian traveller Chris Tyrkalo and his daughters Ella and Elyse took the opportunity to explore the newly surfaced shells on the shoreline after the low tide along Palm Cove.

“My sister has been taking us around to her favourite parts of Australia,” Mr Tyrkalo said.

“The girls haven’t had much luck in collecting the shells up until now … this low tide is the most luck they’ve had.”

Mr Tyrkalo’s sister and tour guide for the trip Jen Elkow said Cairns was one of her favourite spots along the east coast.

“We’re lucky to see the sun come out and warm things up,” Ms Elkow said.

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