Our friends Jon Sturge and Chris LeGrow at Cloudbreaker are experts in the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for media/promotion, inspection/monitoring, and surveys/mapping. Last year they visited the Port Rexton area and captured some amazing footage. Please enjoy their finished product below and keep them in mind if you require a UAV in your business.

Fishers’ Loft offers gift certificates for dinners, rooms and suites. Please contact us toll free at 877-464-3240 to purchase your gift certificate and provide us with any special instructions. Gift certificates make great Christmas, wedding, anniversary and other occasion gifts.

The following is an excerpt of an article on globeandmail.com, written by Paul Waldie.

Giving Back: The Fine Art of Hooking up with Business

globeandmail.com | Paul Waldie

The Donors: John and Peggy Fisher

The Gift: Creating Business and Arts Newfoundland and Labrador

The Cause: Supporting local artists

When John and Peggy Fisher moved to Newfoundland from Toronto 25 years ago and opened an inn, they brought their passion for the arts with them. Both had been deeply involved in arts groups in Toronto; Mr. Fisher ran a theatre where Ms. Fisher, an art historian, worked as well.

They launched Fishers’ Loft in Port Rexton, 260 kilometres northwest of St. John’s, a 33-room lodge spread across seven buildings. The couple filled the rooms with paintings from local artists, with all proceeds from sales going to the artists. That was just the start.

As appeared in Canadian Gardening magazine in early summer 2011. Text by Suzanne Moutis, with photography by Donna Griffith. To view the full article and photos click here.

Nature & Nurture

On the windswept coast of Newfoundland, a clever, contemporary Zone 3 garden feels right at home in its magical surroundings.

Many of us contemplate a hotel stay in terms of breakfast in bed and lounging around the pool. Few of us imagine it in terms of thinking that you’ve never been anywhere quite as special, or felt quite as much at home.

The following is an excerpt of an article on globeandmail.com, written by Barbara Ramsay Orr.

Wild and Windblown: Nature’s Gardens

Barbara Ramsay Orr picks six of the best places to visit Mother Nature’s handiwork.

globeandmail.com | Barbara Ramsay Orr | Special to The Globe and Mail

Just as modern tastes are calling for wild blueberries, wild salmon and free-range chicken, the taste in gardens is leaning towards the wild as well, for many of the same reasons. First, there is only one force at work. These gardens are Mother Nature’s handiwork, and no one else has muddled with the design or the input. Everything is naturally occurring and self-sustaining and raised without the intervention of cultivation or chemicals. Most of these gardens are remote pockets of idyllic peace, virtually untouched by man and far removed from noise, pollution and traffic. Plants and trees are indigenous, many of them having survived and thrived for centuries. These gardens are a promise of continuity and regeneration.