Hilton Head, South Carolina Wood Tide Clock | Carved Birch Coastal Wall Clock
How the Water Becomes Wood
One hand on this wall answers to the moon, not the hour.
- ChartThe recessed birch face carries the water's etched shoreline over a hand-stained sea.
- MovementA quartz mechanism turns the tide hand once every 12 hours and 25 minutes, the lunar tide cycle.
- Set onceAlign it at your local high tide, or at the full or new moon, and it tracks from there.
- NoteTide movements are offered for East Coast waters only; Gulf and West Coast tides run too irregular for a quartz mechanism.
A Hilton Head tide clock in carved birch: the island, Calibogue Sound, and Broad Creek etched across the face, with a single hand keeping pace with the moon.
Hilton Head's seven-to-eight-foot tides remake the island twice a day: Broad Creek becomes navigable and then becomes mudflat, the sandbar gatherings assemble and disperse, and the dolphin tours time their strand-feeding watches to the drop. The tide hand rotates once every 12 hours and 25 minutes on the lunar cycle, set once at local high water and reliable through the season.
It suits the wall by the garage door, above the beach wagon and the bike helmets.
The island's full water is carved in relief on the Hilton Head 3D chart.
- 16.5 in diameter, quartz tide movement
- Set once at local high tide
- Laser-etched birch face, AA battery, ready to hang
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