This is the landing spot given to John Cabot's 1497 voyage across the atlantic to discover a westerly route to Asia. A plaque and bust of Cabot sit above a wonderful long red sand beach. The famous Cabot Trail, named after him, is a coastal highway that runs the perimeter of much of the island. The highway climbs and decends, often more than a thousand feet over a complex geologic history carved from glaciers, rising and falling tectonics, and the unrelenting north atlantic.