The Canadian Automobile Association says so in a survey published today. The Kempt Head Road comes in at No. 5 (actually No. 6, since two roads tied for third). Ironically, the gravel portion of the road is in pretty good shape after a couple of post-winter gradings. But the paved portion? Oh, the paved portion! It's hard to depict in a photo, but this is pretty much how it looks from end to end: For the curious, the Kempt Head Road begins at Exit 13W on the TransCanada Highway 105, near the Seal Island Bridge (officially the Great Bras d'Or Crossing). It...

05 June, 2013

Less than an hour ago, from his perch aboard the International Space Station, Cmdr. Chris Hadfield posted this photo of Contrarian's Kempt Head, Boularderie Island, home. (Just incidentally, the photo also shows the ice of Baddeck Bay, from which Alexander Graham Bell's research team flew Canada's first powered aircraft, the Silver Dart, in 1909, a factoid Hadfield happened to mention.) For the geographically challenged, Boularderie Island is the slender finger of land extending in from the right edge of the photo. Kempt Head forms the island's southwestern tip, and is the name applied to the community that occupies the portion of the island...

04 April, 2013