Saturday, July 16, 2016, Baddeck, NS
Day 49

A 20 mile drive east to the Bras d’Or Lake Campground. A visit to the Alexander Graham Bell Museum educated us as to how little we knew of him other than the telephone. He did quite bit more including airplane design and hydrofoil boats.  He also invented a wireless phone called a photophone around the turn of the last century but deemed it not useful or feasible. He and his wife Mabel came to Baddeck for vacation in 1885 and fell in love with it.  They moved here and built an estate called Benin Breagh. That’s it across from the lighthouse.  Bell’s descendants still own and maintain the house but it is unoccupied presently. It is easy to see why they stayed here as the area is really beautiful, at least during summer.  We did a quick tour of Baddeck and its wharf to discover the Blue Nose II is here.  We climbed aboard and hung out discussing things with some of the crew for a bit. Then it was off to Big Spruce Brewing for a sample flight of 4 beers, including “Cereal Killer”, a good oatmeal stout. We capped the day at Baddeck Lobster Suppers. Rosemary had the lobster entree while I had the lobster dinner complete, that included all you can eat chowder and mussels with my lobster. The goal was to pig out on the mussels and pass some of my lobster to Rosemary. Worked like a charm as I had 4 big bowls of mussels to an unbelieving waitress and Rosemary had a three clawed lobster.