Cape Breton Highlands

 From our location at Big Spruce Brewing in Baddeck, we moved to cape Breton Highlands National Park. We stayed in Cheticamp campground, near the small town of Cheticamp. The most French(or Acadian) location of our entire trip. All signage in French, with some having no English translation. That was fun a couple of times.  Cheticamp, like most other small towns along the coast had a fishing background, but the tourist trade had to be the major financial provider nowadays. The park  campground was full all five nights we were there.

I took a hike while in the campground.  Called Salmon pools, it followed the Cheticamp river a few miles past some pretty pools and swift water. The landscape reminded me a lot of the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee and North Carolina.

As for the national park. Don't get me wrong, it was beautiful, but..  If it had been our first stop in Canada, I would have been impressed. 
After seeing all the beauty of other parts of Nova Scotia,  New Brunswick, and especially Newfoundland, it paled in comparison. 

We drove part of the coastline, ate some of the local seafood, and had a great time there.  Even  had ice cream every day for lunch.  A few more random pictures of the area.

Getting ready to head for the states..

Alexander Graham Bell

 The town of Baddeck, Nova Scotia may not ring a bell with you, but it was home to one of the greatest inventors of all time. It was here he invented the telephone, and changed the world of communication as it was then known. 

But the telephone was only one small part of his lifelong pursuits. He worked tirelessly on helping the deaf. He was involved in the first Canadian airplane flight. He helped invent hydrofoils, and even left a prototype on the beach to rot away, before what was left of it was brought to this museum. 

The museum contained hundreds of his experiments, tools, gadgets, and even objects unknown to anyone but him. I took some pictures, but they don't touch what was there.  If ever in northern Nova Scotia, don't miss the Alexander Graham Bell Museum. A Canadian National Park site.

He wa quite a man....jc