Baddeck is located at the southern tip of Cape Breton Highlands National Park.
Good news for Canada’s 150th year – all National Parks and museums are free to visitors.
So, before leaving Baddeck we visit the museum devoted to Alexander Graham Bell and his wife Mabel.
Situated at the north end of town, on a grassy knoll, it looks across to Beinn Bhreagh where the Bells had their summer home and where Alexander dreamed of his inventions and the many ways in which his family might help humanity.
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Service stations are few and far between, so you’ll have to plan ahead.
Dreamers and doers
After this great museum we turn north easy and head up the coast, past St Ann’s Harbour, through Indian Brook, Wreck Cove and Ingonish, to Neil’s Harbour where we’re told the best chowder in North America is to be had. I can’t speak for the others, but Chowder Inn’s seafood soup is chunky, delicious and super affordable.
Enjoyed with Alexander Keith’s Indian Pale Ale and a lobster club sandwich, it’s the best late afternoon snack I’ve had for a while.
Meanwhile, through the window, we spot a whale’s spout and then some dive-bombing sea birds.
Neil’s Harbour faces directly into the Atlantic. Today it’s sunny with a brisk breeze but I imagine it would be much cooler here mid-winter.
