(taken with 35mm camera) Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia and the famous Cabot Trail that loops around the northern tip of the Island, and is 185 miles or 298 km long. I don't usually do this but here's a bit of the history behind the Island: In the year 1497 the first Europeans, led by the famed explorer John Cabot arrived on Cape Breton. Cabot's discovery of the island led to it's eventual settlement by Europeans, mainly by the Scots, Irish, French and English. This mixture of cultures remains on the the island to this day. The settlers who came to Cape Breton hugged the coast-line for two reasons: they were a seafaring people and the fact that Cape Breton was an "untamed country" with difficult terrain. Thus the construction of this highway.. but automobiles weren't able to use it properly until the 1930's! It took a while... :o)