On The Road Again

Baddeck is music and seafood, music and Gaelic, music and oat cakes, music and tartan, music and history...did I mention music?   This charming little Cape Breton town on the ocean shores is where Alexander Graham Bell and his wife spent their summer months, beside their Rockefeller friends.  Did you know that the telephone was a by product of Alex trying desperately to create a device that would help his deaf wife hear?   Of course we go to a Ceilidh, a Cape Breton kitchen party style music with an amazing fiddler, piano accompanist and stomping, tapping step dancer.  We were lucky enough to Maudie Rankin, a niece of the large Rankin family whose music many Canadians know.  I think that children are all given fiddles on their third birthday and learn to play because it is their blood, in their heritage, in the very air they breathe. We went on a Puffin Tour!  I've always wanted to see the little black and white birds with their orange striped bea...

We enter Fundy National Park.  It's foggy and refreshing after leaving 32C with humidity back in Fredericton.  We can see the fog laying on the horizon. Alma is a small coastal town situated close to the tidal bore from Fundy tides.  When the tide is out, boats  are left lodged in mud.  Looks strange to come up on so many marooned vessels, but we know they will float again in 6 hours. This truly is the place Shakespeare spoke of when mentioning "There is a tide in the affairs of men.."  The next morning the cool mist is actually dripping on us as we sip our coffee at our campsite.  What a difference 24 hours makes.  Yesterday the drops on our brow were sweat.  This feels much better. The Bay of Fundy has the fastest rising tides in the world.  If you arrive at low tide, you get to walk on the bottom of the sea where you can appreciate Nature's underwater sculptures. When the tide is due to return, alarms sound and park officials scurry a...