Supermoon, low tide

I had a doctor's appointment this morning because I haven't been feeling 100%. I did a Covid home test yesterday, negative, but when I told the doc that, he said that he doesn't have any confidence in the results of them. Hmmm...I might go and get one at the Covid testing centre at the hospital, although it wasn't for Covid symptoms that I went to see him. He also told me that the latest variants are circular, just going around and around in the community. People who have symptoms are blaming them on colds, but he's been seeing people who are very sick and others who have pneumonia and have to be hospitalized. He said that people are denying that they've been infected with the virus. There's still a lot of Covid around.
I have to make some appointments and get blood work to check out a couple of other things, nothing serious. By the time I shopped for a few groceries and had a prescription filled, it was well into the afternoon, and the trip to town took much longer than I expected. I drove around for about 20 minutes looking for a parking spot and only found one because someone happened to be pulling out just as I was about to give up. I really wanted to check out the harbour to see how things looked with the lowest tides here in a decade. I won't be going for a paddle in this location!
"CBC meteorologist Johanna Wagstaffe says these low tides are a result of three cycles that have lined up perfectly. 
First, spring tides — when tides jump from extreme highs to extreme lows and line up with the full moon — are currently in effect.
Second: the full moon overnight is the closest it will be to Earth in 2022.
Third, the peak of the moon's 18.6-year cycle, also known as the Lunar Standstill, is fast approaching. The peak occurs in 2024-2025, but observable effects extend for at least three years around that period."
Info from the CBC website

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