Moncton

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Monc­ton has a tidal-bore, which basi­cally looks like a muddy reddish-brown river – only the water level changes up to 7.5 meters, with the tides. Appar­ently the locals call it the “Total Bore”. It was mildly inter­est­ing to us… We sorta wanted to col­lect some of its mud (we would like to start col­lect­ing sand from beaches we’ve been to) – but it looked pretty slip­pery and dan­ger­ous too (also still pour­ing rain), so we left it. This is us in a cov­ered bridge, over­look­ing it. Also… They seem to have a thing for cov­ered bridges here…

For sup­per, we went to Pump­house Brew­ery, which was great. We drank some of their yummy beer, and ate mus­sels and I had a salmon sand­wich and Brian had an egg­plant bake. And played with our cam­eras and some gen­eral silli­ness ensued.

We thought for a long time about what on earth we could do on a rainy rainy evening after din­ner while on vaca­tion, and decided… Same thing you do at home. Go to a movie. So we went and saw Iron Man 2. We thought it was great – highly rec­om­mend it, as long as comic book movies are your thing. And on the way back to our hotel, it had stopped rain­ing, but every­thing was still all shiny-wet so I thought I’d take some long expo­sures out the wind­shield. Why not?