Thursday, July 06, 2006
The third day out east
After a cheese omelette and toast made by my uncle Thursday morning, we headed out to a Scottish Highlands pioneer village. Along the way, we toured the parking lot of the Dundee golf course and stopped at the Orangedale Railroad Museum but it was closed. My daughter was impressed by the snowplow engine.
Again, there were characters in costume in the village. The buildings were arranged in chronological order. The first cabin was pretty primitive with a centre hearth and pen for the animals inside. It had a sod roof, and the beds were boxed in because of leaks. The kids bought candy sticks at the general store and learned some Gaelic.
After a bit of lunch, we headed to the Alexander Graham Bell museum at Baddeck. We had to cross from one side of the lake to the other using a cable ferry at one point. In a way, it seems like Bell spent the rest of his life trying to repeat the glory he had achieved with the telephone. There is a full-size recreation of the hydrofoil he built that is pretty amazing. He was an American which I didn't realize. We headed home for supper taking a more direct route. It was a lot of driving in one day.
To be continued ...
Again, there were characters in costume in the village. The buildings were arranged in chronological order. The first cabin was pretty primitive with a centre hearth and pen for the animals inside. It had a sod roof, and the beds were boxed in because of leaks. The kids bought candy sticks at the general store and learned some Gaelic.
After a bit of lunch, we headed to the Alexander Graham Bell museum at Baddeck. We had to cross from one side of the lake to the other using a cable ferry at one point. In a way, it seems like Bell spent the rest of his life trying to repeat the glory he had achieved with the telephone. There is a full-size recreation of the hydrofoil he built that is pretty amazing. He was an American which I didn't realize. We headed home for supper taking a more direct route. It was a lot of driving in one day.
To be continued ...
