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here ) , and look for moose and nesting bald eagles in Cape Breton Highlands National
Park ( Click here ). Get your art fix at the studios along the St Ann's Loop ( Click here )
before heading over to Baddeck ( Click here ) to learn everything you ever wanted to
know about Alexander Graham Bell at the town's fabulous museum. From here take a
jaunt east to Louisbourg ( Click here ) to visit the massive, windy restored French Fort
complete with costumed thespians and activities to bring you back to the 18th century.
Stop at the Miner's Museum in Glace Bay ( Click here ) before arriving in industrial North
Sydney for the ferry to Newfoundland.
It's a six-hour sail over the sometimes rough swell of the Cabot Strait to Port aux
Basques ( Click here ) . Alight and drive north to Gros Morne National Park ( Click
here ) , rich with mountain hikes, sea-kayak tours, fjords and weird rock formations. Take
the Viking Trail from here to its awe-inspiring endpoint: L'Anse aux Meadows National
Historic Site ( Click here ) , North America's first settlement. Leif Eriksson and his Viking
pals homesteaded the place 1000 years ago, and it probably looked much the same then
as it does now. After coming all this way, you too will feel like an Atlantic explorer.
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