Here Numbers Matter!

15,000 year old icebergs, 35 million seabirds, 365 million year old fossils!


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 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 discuss slight changes to customize their itinerary or accommodations to match their own interests.

Dates

  • Choose your 5-day, 4-nights
    between May 1 – 20, 2025

2025 Prices

 

  • Double: $2,600 (CAD) *
  • Single: $2,950 (CAD) *



Interested in exploring with us in 2026? Call and speak with us today about our season availability or to book your vacation getaway!




* These are the per person prices. 15% Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) is not included.

01

Day One

Welcome and Orientation

Pick up at airport and short orientation tour of St. John’s. We use this time to introduce you to your upcoming vacation highlights.

Overnight Location: St. John's

  • Jelly Bean Row
02

Day Two

Puffins and Icebergs

Today begins with a visit to North America’s most easterly point, Cape Spear, and then on to a boat tour featuring North America’s largest Atlantic puffin colony, and hundreds of other seabirds. Sometimes, we find dolphins, humpbacks, and the year’s first fin whales. Giant icebergs, calved from the Greenland glaciers, are usually seen - their stunning blue and green hues providing us with fabulous photography. We also enjoy a visit to one of the New World’s earliest fishing villages.

Overnight Location: St. John's

  • Whale Watching
03

Day Three

Wonder Full Wilderness

Today, the world is your oyster! Get your zoom lenses ready as we trek along the Southern Shore on what is fondly referred to as The Irish Loop. Wide expanses of rugged beauty await you, as towering cliffs, wave tossed beaches, bogs, and barrens hug the Atlantic coastline. On sunny days, you can see across the land and ocean horizon for endless miles. On foggy days, a sense of calmness prevails. Breezes from offshore, where the warm southern Gulf Stream meets and mixes with the cold northern Labrador Current, creates a mystical journey as you meander towards the Edge of Avalon Interpretation Centre in Portugal Cove South.


We are headed to our province's most recent UNESCO World Heritage Site. Here, you will explore 580–560 million year old Ediacaran fossils of the oldest, largest, complex life-forms found anywhere on earth on the wave-scourged bedding planes of Mistaken Point. Once your fingertips trace over the imprints of the embedded fossils, the 25 minute drive from the Centre to the trail head and gentle to moderate 30 minute hike to the fossil surfaces makes it all worth while! Diving gannets, cavorting whales, and sunning seals are often sighted offshore as you venture along the coastline trail.


The Southern Avalon region exudes a unique energy. Like each of Newfoundland and Labrador's isolated outport communities, there is a strong, distinctive cultural history tied to the land and the sea. Open up your senses to the rare interactions waiting to be experienced. Feel the salt spray on your face at Cape Race, where on April 14, 1912, the distress signals of the Titanic were received. Shipwrecks were an unfortunate occurrence on the rocky shores of this area as well; hence the name ‘Mistaken Point’. The tale of the infamous ‘wreck of the S.S. Florizel’ off Cappahayden is waiting to be heard. Capture the perfect memory of the beautiful subarctic ‘Eastern Hyper-oceanic Barrens’. Seek out Woodland caribou, moose, seals, Willow ptarmigan, Short-eared and Snowy owls, Horned larks, alpine-arctic wildflowers, more icebergs, our provincial flower the carnivorous Pitcher plant, and so much more!

Overnight Location: Trepassey

  • Mistaken Point

Calved from Greenland glaciers, thousands of these giants journey here to greet you!

Blue and crystal hues of mammoth icebergs drift beside our shores along ‘iceberg alley’.

Will you look so good when you are 15,000 years old?!!
04

Day Four

Sea Stacks, Seabirds, and Lighthouses

Your travels today take you to the Continent’s third largest gannet colony. This site features tens of thousands of other seabirds including razorbills, guillemot, fulmars, cormorant, and the world’s most southerly thick-billed murres. Caribou and moose sightings, a possible first sighting of whales as you look out over the oceans and bays, and arctic-alpine flora are a continued part of the day’s wonders. Remember, this is your holiday and we are very flexible; so feel free to discuss exploring and dining options with your naturalist guide as you enjoy another magical day in May.


Overnight Location: St. John's

  • Cape St. Mary's
    Photo by Steve Bodart
05

Day Five

Fond Farewell

More leisure time in St. John’s until we get you to the airport.

We have much to learn by studying nature and taking time to tease out its secrets

David Suzuki
  • Newfoundland Puffin

Notes

  • Included: Four nights accommodations, an experienced naturalist guide, all breakfasts and lunches, a farewell supper, ground and boat transportation, airport pick-up and drop-off.


  • Not Included: Transportation to and/or from Newfoundland and Labrador.


  • Other: Meals are a highlight and feature Newfoundland specialties such as partridgeberry tarts and bakeapple pies. Note that the order of events may be changed to accommodate the weather and other possible participants. The May weather is usually excellent! Along the way we usually find you some icebergs too!

Starting

$2,950 Per Person

Based on Double Occupancy
Airfare NOT included. 15% HST extra

Come explore. Spaces are limited. Call and speak with us today!

+1 709.722.3123