On to Cape Breton with Grandma

We picked up Grandma Vandermeulen and spent one more day in Halifax checking out the citadel and more of Pier 21.  Then it was off to Cape Bretton where the best chinese food is in Port Hawksbury.

 We had a stroll at Battery Park near St Peters.

 This ruin is from about 1750.

 Water is clear and trails beautiful.

 We camped near a small port at Big Bras D'Or ( bigbrador say it as fast as you can to sound Cape like).

 Fort Louisbourg near the tip of Cape Bretton.

 Being there out of season meant we got to drive where most can only walk.

 The second oldest lighthouse in Canada was on the foundation to t he right, and the current one was built in 1912.

 Everyone do not take two steps back.

 We had a drive around the northern loop called the Cabot Trail......

 ......and found some squatters on a beach at the Bay St. Lawrence.

 They mean it.

 At the A.G. Bell museum  in Baddeck we learned Bell was most into teaching the deaf to communicate...

 He was also responsible for the first Canadian flight and a hydrofoil built with this hull in 1918.  Since the war was over the hydrofoil never got off the ground.   That and the fact that it was only meant to stay on the water anyway.

 We took a misty ferry ride to Newfoundland on Mother's Day, but monopoly was good.