Sydney to Baddeck to Halifax

Breakfast at our b&b this morning we were joined at our table  by a couple from Ontario who were flying to Newfoundland to visit their daughter. They told us much about Newfoundland as they had been there a few times......it has been scratched from our trip this time unfortunately but we feel strongly it is a place to visit. The problem this time...is time! Because we are off season, the ferry we want to take has stopped running, this means a ferry to the east side of the island then a 11/12 hour drive around to St Johns, then reverse it all to return to Nova Scotia .......we will plan another trip and fly Van/Tor/syd/st Johns.
Talk8ng with our breakfast mates one subject led to another and lo and  behold they brought up the places  they knew people in BC.....Kitimat @nd  Chilliwack. Small world!
It’s another pretty day in Cape Breton. As we drive around the Bras’d’Or area we see many English place names with the Gaelic name below. We have seen quite a lot of fly fishing in the rivers, particularly the Margaree , (travis Dowle) best in the world they say!
The Bras’d’Or area encircles several lakes around the town of Baddeck. Baddeck is wher3 the Alexander Graham Bell Museum is located and it is a must see if you are in the area. What an interesting, intelligent, compassionate man. He was born 101 years before me in Edinburgh Scotland. He is best known for inventing the telephone, which gave him the financial freedom to do other works more dear to his heart. H3cwas apparently not a very good student with a brilliant mind. He is most proud of his work with and for the deaf.  Helen Kellars father was a good friend and he came to Bell to ask for help for his daughter. Bell’s father and grandfather were both experts in speech therapy , which is likely why his interest in the deaf arose, he greatly admired his grandfather. Bell had a student who he taught, Mabel, who eventually became his wife at 18. She had been deaf since the age of 5 from Scarlett fever. In the museum I saw this quote ......

“I have loved you with a passionate attachment that you cannot understand, and that is to myself new and incomprehensible. I.....wish to make you my wife-if you would let me try to win your love”

So beautiful.....I could go on and on about this man who I now so admire.  One more interesting fact!
Bell was also very instrumental in aviation. In the museum there is note of Bjarni Tryggvason, who is now a professor of flight at Western University , he flew a replica of Alexander Bells first plane in February 2009. Bjarni spent part of his schooling in Kitimat, Richmond high, and UBC!

There is a book called How the Scots Invented the World , which I have at home, I’m sure it will tell me more  about this amazing man.
We hit the road again and are staying the night in Halifax....visiting Maude Lewis house in the Nova Scotia Art Gallery tomorrow.
Nite nite.....we miss Cape Breton already.