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The Labor Day Weather Focus is on Canada's Foggy Bay of Fundy

September 3, 2010 at 12:36 PM | by | Comments (0)

Among those affected by the oncoming wind and rain of Hurricane Earl are the Canada-bound cruise ships. Good thing we took our trip up to Nova Scotia and New Brunswick last month, huh?

The Bay of Fundy is said to be exactly where Earl will make landfall on Sunday, so expect this quaint Canadian area to be in the headlines for more than just their pretty autumn leaves and oddly high tidal range. Speaking of those tides—which see daily changes in the water level of around 55' in some parts—they are bound to be even crazier come this weekend. Tourists who flock to the Bay of Fundy just to see the water level rise dramatically will be in for a treat this weekend, if they aren't completely rained out of town.

Last month, we spent some time deep in the Bay of Fundy at the port of Saint John, New Brunswick. Although we missed the big tidal drop and rise, we did spend an inordinately long amount of time engulfed in thick and soupy fog. It was pretty awesome when it wasn't plain spooky.

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Foreign Grocery Friday: Sucking on 'Dulse' Seaweed in New Brunswick

August 20, 2010 at 4:12 PM | by | Comments (2)

When we travel, one of our favorite things to do is to pop into a local grocery store and check out the food products and candies we'd never find anywhere else. So we're trying out this new feature, Foreign Grocery Friday, where each week we'll feature some of our (and your) favorite overseas treats. Got a recommendation? Let us know!

Mmm seaweed potato chips. Wait, what? It's true; there is a place where seaweed is dried and eaten like crunchy potato chips, and that place is the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, in Canada. We just picked some of the fishy-smelling stuff—called Dulse—ourselves from the Saint John City Market, and we're chewing through a bit as we type this description of the rare, but totally have-to-try-it foodstuff.

The taste: Oh, it's seaweedy alright, but nothing like eating the salty dried seaweed sheets typically wrapped around sushi. This dark egglant-colored stuff is crunchy at the first bite, and very chewy like octopus during further mastication. The natural saltiness hits first, followed by a flavor not unlike a coastline covered in stinking, slippery seaweed-covered rocks. In other words, it tastes like how a sunny fishing village smells.

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