Oh ship!

After a day of reading, I went downtown to meet David at the Tall Ships festival (with my recharged camera). There were ships from Norway, the Netherlands, Poland, Brazil, Ecuador, Portugal and they were scattered in docks all over the city.

I felt like I was walking around in a Vanguard annual report.

There was a parade of crews. My favourite were the Brazilians--best music, best dancers. They had a pretend pirate shoot another pirate, pretend firefighters collect the body, and a lot of pretend leprechauns. They were having fun.

Titanic Museum in the background.

The BBC had a lot of tents and were broadcasting live from one of the ships. One of the tents was a Dr. Who tent:

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