Cape Breton

We crossed the Canso Strait into Cape Breton and stopped at the visitor center to find out the extended weather forecast. We were told to drive the famous Cabot Trail at the top of Cape Breton only if the weather was clear. We also want to play golf at the Highlands Links in the same area - so, we needed at least 3 days of good weather. The best we could figure, we could get 3 good days out of the next 4, so we headed directly to the Cabot Trail.

We made a stop at Alexander Graham Bell's museum. He was a scotsman by birth, an American citizen, but spent much of his life in Canada in a mansion on a bluff overlooking a beautiful bay. We learned that in addition to the telephone, he was very involved with flying machines, genetics, hovercraft and teaching the deaf (he taught Helen Keller).