On July 9, 2013
“The Cabot Trail is an organic thing – playful, daring, and exuberant as it
Cap Rouge, Cape Breton Island — Copyright © 2013 by Warren Gordon
swoops and turns, plunges and climbs, clinging to looming mountainsides, lingering by rocky shores, darting into immense woods, and boldly descending at break-neck angles toward the glistening sea. To traverse the trail is to ride the whale’s back, thrilling all the while at its wild life coursing beneath you…. Can a place, as well as a person, be a kindred spirit? I find such a place near Ingonish. There, the Middle Head Peninsula points like an impossibly long, rocky finger into the deep blue heart of the sea. Buttressed by steep cliffs, with the pounding surf as its moat, this fortress of rock and forest is my heart’s true home – a sanctuary of beauty and tranquility that befits the idylls of a king.”
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