July 15, 2008

July 15, 2008

We are on the road early this morning to catch the ferry off Prince Edward Island. After a 70-minute ride we land in Nova Scotia or New Scotland. We stop at a tourist office and then drive north onto Cape Breton Island toward Baddeck, NS and the Alexander Graham Bell Historic Site. Bell was born in Scotland, moved to the US as a teen and invented the telephone in 1876 after many years of teaching the deaf to speak. With his new fortune he built a castle-size summer home here in Baddeck. The museum gives a brief account of his life, and then recalls all the inventive tinkering he did here later in life. His two main foci were the airplane (too little, too late) and the hydrofoil (before his time). Although interesting I was disappointed on how little there was on the telephone, but I guess that was invented while in the US.

We spend the night at a private park just south of Baddeck, NS