September 19--Louisbourg

Well, the weather was beautiful this morning, a little frost on the tent, but the heater is holding in there keeping us warm. So our choice was made for us.

Right now we are sitting in our lawnchairs looking at Louisbourg Bay (mile 4,509), smelling the ocean, watching the lobster boats go by, and contemplating ??? guess what ??? for dinner. There is a place just down the street called the Lobster Kettle, within walking distance.

We traveled down the eastern coast of Cape Breton today, Steve had lots of practice braking and turning with the bike and trailer rig. We had a short little ferry ride across a river, and then made a right turn and headed for Baddeck. Great highway, and lots of photo opportunities if we had a panorama lens.



We spent a few hours at the Alexander Graham Bell Museum. Did you know that Bell had invented the photophone years ago, turning light waves into electrical and sound way back in the late 1800’s? I learned what a classy lady his wife was in so many different ways! It was a fascinating museum, and amazing the number of things Bell worked on in his life. His family still lives in Baddeck, a charming little community with lots of sailboats in the harbour. There are about 20 residences on the Bell property belonging to various Bell offspring.

After the museum and lunch, we headed back north to Sydney, and thought for a very quick moment about taking the ferry to Newfoundland, but passed it by for Louisbourg. Tomorrow we are going to the old French fortress/museum and are advised it takes about 4 hours to tour. We will be there when they open at 9:30 a.m and then head towards the Bay of Fundy National Park in New Brunswick tomorrow afternoon. Tomorrow will mark the furthest point East of our great adventure. Thus, officially, we’ll be ‘on our way home’ tomorrow although it will be a much longer trek back (going by way of North Carolina, Texas, etc.)!