Alexander Graham Bell

 The town of Baddeck, Nova Scotia may not ring a bell with you, but it was home to one of the greatest inventors of all time. It was here he invented the telephone, and changed the world of communication as it was then known. 

But the telephone was only one small part of his lifelong pursuits. He worked tirelessly on helping the deaf. He was involved in the first Canadian airplane flight. He helped invent hydrofoils, and even left a prototype on the beach to rot away, before what was left of it was brought to this museum. 

The museum contained hundreds of his experiments, tools, gadgets, and even objects unknown to anyone but him. I took some pictures, but they don't touch what was there.  If ever in northern Nova Scotia, don't miss the Alexander Graham Bell Museum. A Canadian National Park site.

He wa quite a man....jc

Short timers

 Our time in Newfoundland was quickly coming to a close. We allotted two weeks. Wish we had made it a month, minimum.  There's way too much to do and see in the Province. 

We departed our provincial park on the Bonavista Peninsula early on a Tuesday morning. Traveled most of the day Eastward through Gander and Windsor, with a destination of Pilley's island. A Harvest Host site on the island named Bumblebee Bight Inn and Brewery. It made a wonderful overnight stop with great parking, nice view from our trailer, and an amazing hostess. Good beer, and we had a nice dinner there, also.

Wednesday morning found us getting a later start. We had a shorter day mileage wise, with our destination being the same parking lot we stayed in after getting off the ferry two weeks before. We stopped in Deer Lake for gasoline and Tim Hortons. Another stop in Corner Brook for lunch. Mary Brown Chicken 'n' Taters. A chain we had seem numerous times, but passed by. It happened to be handy, and was really good fried chicken. There was a free dump in Stephenville, so we took a short detour into there. Our least favorite town in Newfoundland. It had a more industrial look, but also seemed depressed in a way. The streets and parking lots were in bad shape, and the vibe we had found everywhere else seemed to not be there. We arrived at our parking lot early, around 3 PM. Gave us lots of time for happy hour, reminiscing about our previous two weeks.

The next morning, Thursday, we were at Port Aux Basques by 8:30.  We had another pleasant voyage back to North Sydney, Nova Scotia.

We arrived on time, and made it to Big Spruce Brewing for the night in Baddeck, NS. Another Harvest Host location where we met two couples traveling in Olivers. Another brand of molded fiberglass trailer. They were from Indiana and Virginia. A mini fiberglass rally. 

Stand by for Alexander Graham Bell....jc

Random Passage

 I visited another location close to Trinity. Known as the Random Passage Site. It was built 25 years or so ago to replicate a small cod fishing settlement of the 1800's. There was a mini series filmed there for a season or two of the same name. It consisted of a number of cabins, cod processing house, drying racks, merchants office and home, church, and assorted out buildings. Come along as we tour.

This Anglican church was real. It was at the beginning of the trail to the Random Passage site. I thought it was beautiful.

Garden fence.

School house.

Ned and Mary's cabin.

Just a fireplace, without a chimney.  Smoke exited through a hole in the earthen roof.

Merchant's cabin.

Salting house and drying racks of salted cod.

The church.

The following pictures are just random shots. All of these show just how the people whose livelihood depended on cod lived and worked.

Moving on....jc