Fogo Island

They got a Don's.

I remember the Don's going to Fogo Island.

Don's Subway.

No Wendy's.

Ami and Ian just wrote to me.

They frequently, their lives are split between Washington, DC and Fogo Island in Newfoundland.

And they frequently make that drive and they play my game on the trip.

And I am honored.

So, yeah, I was born and raised in Newfoundland.

So I lived on a born and raised in a place called Fogo Island on the northeast coast of Newfoundland.

Went to university down there and actually moved to Alaska when I was 22 in 2002.

So I spent a couple of years in Alaska there.

There are moose around, but you just don't see them... uh close by and where i hike the only one i actually saw here was in a lake swimming because moose are i'm not sure if you know this little lesson but moose are very uh almost aquatic like they like to go into lakes and and dive down to eat vegetation so they're in ponds and lakes very often so the only one i did see here was swimming so i just saw his head swimming across the lake but

yeah yeah i wasn't aware of that that's cool did you see him growing up in newfoundland at all or

So on Fogo Island, where I grew up, there were no moose.

We had caribou out there, which I saw a lot.

There are many who want to do hook and line fishing.

They want to hook and line for northern cod, but they want to do it in the Hawk Channel off of Labrador and Funk Island Deep off Fogo Island.

Now, these are considered as marine refuges.

You can fish crab, though, with crab pots.

It's off, yes, the northeast coast.

It's due north, I guess you say, from Fogo Island, just about, or from Cape Freels.

It's a rectangular, basically a rectangular-shaped box.

It's huge, yes.

Yeah, so it's kind of like, you know, I guess the Shorefast Foundation or that kind of idea.

We're, we're familiar with that because of, you know, Fogo Island.

Similar, but on a much smaller scale [laughs].

[laughs] So what's the long-term plan? You mentioned the spa.

Who took the money that was granted by the federal government, did the best thing with it? Trinity set up this globally interesting theater attraction.

Fogo Island, Battle Harbor, Fairyland, like these places that just went, okay, that's over, so now we'll do this.

And they pivoted so well and quickly.

But looking back on it, There was a couple of things that happened right when the moratorium hit.