Cabot Trail – Day 1.
Our first stop was to visit the Alexander Graham Bell museum in Baddock. It’s a lovely national park with a good number of well-organized artifacts. The first section was about AGB’s initial interest in speech articulation for deaf people; his mother and wife were both deaf. His inventions and interests were varied and aside from the telephone included aircraft, hydrofoil, and genetics.
The eastern half of Cabot Trail provides a few ocean views, but for the most part winds its way through the trees. We were very glad to be driving the Equinox and not the RV. The road is narrow, winding and rough at times. But when there was a view it was great!
Our neighbour Kelsey told us that friends had visited Meat Cove at the top of Cape Breton and highly recommended it. The part of the road beyond the actual Cabot Trail is not for the faint of heart – it’s not paved and quite rough. But the drive was worth it!!
The John Cabot park is near our B&B – interesting to think of what it must have been like for those early explorers.
The B&B we booked for the night was back near the Cabot Trail and had a bathtub!! Ahhhh.
Cross-Canada with the MAHARG's 