This shot was taken half a block from where we live, isn't it breathtaking? This is their harvest moon, as we are now moving into Autumn here. The tides of the ocean are created because the Earth and the Moon are attracted to each other like magnets. The Moon tries to pull anything on the Earth closer. The Earth is able to hold onto everything but the water. Each day there are two high tides and two low tides moving back and forth. (high, low, high,low,etc) There is 12 hours and 25 minutes between the two high tides. The strongest tides are during the full moon and the new moon, so the picture above has a very strong tide.