A holiday where you choose the dates and leave the rest to us. May can be magic in eastern Newfoundland. The ocean is alive as millions of seabirds feed along the coast enjoying the bounty of the subarctic springtime. Nests are built, burrows are dug, and the coastline is abuzz with soaring gannets, colourful puffins and the first whales of the year. Most years we also enjoy giant Greenland icebergs likely calved from the same glacier as the iceberg that sank the Titanic. Newfoundland and Labrador provides easy access to the hemisphere’s largest icebergs. May is a time when the fishing communities come to life as boats head out for fresh lobster and other delicious local seafoods. This trip enjoys the comforts of olde St. John’s in the evening while providing three fun days of exploration and wildlife that features the highlights of the city and the countryside. Many guests use our May Magic program to explore the wonders of eastern Newfoundland on a tour where they often find themselves enjoying an exclusive excursion. We are delighted to provide these distinctive excursions as described but we also welcome inquiries from folks who want to customize this itinerary or the accommodations to match their own interests.

Journey through time with us to learn about the birth of a continent and the death of an ocean. Walk in the footsteps of the New World’s first peoples and explore the home of the first Viking explorers. This exciting holiday starts and ends in Deer Lake, Newfoundland and explores the nature and geology of Gros Morne National Park — a United Nations (UNESCO) World Heritage Site. L’Anse aux Meadows, North America’s only known Norse settlement and another UNESCO World Heritage Site joins Red Bay, the Labrador home to over 1,500 Basque whalers during the 1540s, as destination highlights you experience during this unique vacation. This Newfoundland and Labrador holiday also features the northern terminus of the Appalachian Mountains, an arctic lifestyle encounter at the Grenfell Interpretation Centre, lots of birds and wildlife, plus a short journey to the “centre of the earth.” Enjoy Newfoundlanders, Labradorians, our culture, our distinctive food flavours, and our landscape on this unforgettable holiday. And you will help us celebrate the 1012th anniversary of the Vikings walking our shores. 

For 2012 we are offering this exploratory excursion at the request of Newfoundland naturalist and photographer Mark Tsang. This is Mark’s favorite time of the year. To the north there are icebergs drifting by. Birds of prey are establishing new territories and reclaiming old ones. There is usually snow in the mountains and the ptarmigan are somewhere between winter and breeding colours. Moose and caribou are walking the lowlands in great numbers. Their calves are harder to find as the mother’s are mindful of hunting bears, lynx, eagles, and coyotes. The first wildflowers and songbirds are in full colour in anticipation of a busy subarctic summer. The mountains of Gros Morne provide spectacular photographic opportunities during this season of magic, reawakening, and rejuvenation in late May on the Great Northern Peninsula of Newfoundland. This is a small-group vacation that lets us view fossils, mountains, and a dramatic, glacially scoured landscape as we travel the roads and trails of western and northern Newfoundland… enjoy the magic of May with Mark.

Receiving Titanic Centennial Symposium (April 11 – 16, 2012):  Join us for this participatory travel adventure featuring the Titanic highlights of St. John’s, Cape Race, and eastern Newfoundland. Explore Newfoundland’s Titanic Trail and learn how events here would save over 700 on Titanic.  An iceberg watching trip, a visit to the birthplace of the Information Age and long distance wireless communications; participation in a Titanic recreation using one of the world’s largest ship simulators, Titanic lectures, museum visits featuring Titanic artifacts - authentic and Hollywood, a delicious sampling of 21st century iceberg products, and tickets to the Cape Race Receiving Titanic Commemoration are included.  Enjoy Newfoundland’s finest hotel, see the new world’s first city – St. John’s, stand on the most easterly point in North America, ponder the North Atlantic, and participate in authentic shore-side commemorations and recreations of the events of April 14/15, 1912.   
 
Spawned from West Greenland’s great northern glaciers; birth place of the iceberg that sank the Titanic, the icebergs we hope to view follow the same route south past Newfoundland’s coast to the Gulf stream where they sizzle, crack, explode, and melt out of existence.  While we will enjoy any icebergs, our Titanic Symposium highlights the heroism and tragedy of that time together with the awesome power of the North Atlantic.  Stand on the nearest point of land to the tragedy.  Learn about the wireless way that would save over 700 passengers.  Experience the tragedy and technology of a past age set against the timeless rhythms and unstoppable forces of sea and ice with us.  Check our itinerary and book yourself on to our centennial commemoration.