Baddeck is an attractive little town that draws a large tourist population in the summer. Located on the Bras d'or Lakes the town has a very active yacht club that sponsor's a race week with a large number of local and visiting yachts during the season. One of the main attractions in town is the excellent Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site. His life story is well recounted from his childhood in Scotland to his invention of the telephone. His life work included aeronautics, marine engineering and medical science with the hearing impaired. His father was a teacher of the deaf and developed a sign language, Alexander further developed it and also met his future wife at his fathers school. The Silver Dart the first aircraft to fly in Canada is on display as is a full scale model of his high speed hydrofoil. Bell's house and property is still in the family and only a few kms out of town.
The first 3 photos were taken at the museum, the lighthouse is just outside Beddeck and the final photo is on the route to Sydney, from here we headed down to sea level and across the rather narrow bridge!
After lunch we headed east to Sydney and on to our campsite just outside of Louisburg.
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