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On Monday morning, we left Moncton and headed back South… The rain had finally let-up a little. Still grey and drizzly, but no longer a constant down-pour, as it had been for a few days. As we drove down the highway, Brian noticed what looked like an old train-yard. It turned out to be an old train museum of sorts. It had all sorts of old train cars lined-up all pretty, just waiting for random wandering photographers. You’ll likely see some shots from here show-up in our Flickr streams after we get home — but for now, just
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Further-on down the road from the train museum, we visited the Hopewell Rocks. This was a great diversion from the road. We are, of course, travelling along the Bay of Fundy, where the tides are the highest in the world. The Hopewell Rocks are an area where water has eroded the cliffs into huge, balancing statues. We had picked up a tides schedule a few days ago, so we knew when the tide would be out, so we could walk among them — literally on what is ocean floor half the time. This first shot is looking down
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Originally our plan was to head a little further north along New Brunswick’s coast, to Miramichi — but the rain just wouldn’t stop. It wouldn’t even slow. It’s the sort of rain that drenches you as you run from the door to the car in 3 strides. Can’t see anything, so cold, so soggy… We decided just to head back to Moncton instead. We figured there would be more indoor activities in a larger city. We started back south to Moncton on Sunday, but drove along the coast through Shediac. It would have been more scenic without the grey skies
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We spent the last couple of days in Richibucto and Rexton. No, we don’t know how to pronounce that first one either. Many of the place names seem to be a mixture of Acadian, Aboriginal, and English. In that order. Our hotel was in Richibucto, but Steve’s & Julia’s wedding reception was in Rexton, and the wedding ceremony itself was at St. Paul’s Anglican Church in Brown’s yard — which is about 20–30 minutes out of Rexton. We arrived on Friday afternoon/evening. We met Steve’s and Julia’s families, and attended the wedding rehearsal, so we could see what
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As we fell asleep in the old mansion in Fredericton, the rain started. We could hear it pitter-pattering on the roof and the windows, and church bells in the distance. We slept long and deep. In the morning, we had breakfast in the parlour, and chit-chatted with other visitors — a man and a woman on separate business trips, a young Torontonian who was checking out the University hoping to attend in the fall, and a physics professor in his 60’s who was in town for a math conference.
After breakfast, we packed up and headed out into
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