John and Peggy Fisher took a chance 25 years ago when they decided to pack up their two young children and leave their comfortable home and jobs in Ontario to move to Port Rexton.

They’ve since passed The Fisher’s Loft, their successful hospitality business, on to their sons to run and have just published their own book “Taking a Chance – The First 25 Years of Fisher’s Loft Inn.”

John Fisher was working with Parks Canada and suggested to Peggy that they relocate. They mutually decided on the Trinity Bay area. Peggy says she instantly fell in love.

“They were still building boats on the beach,” she says and suggested that they buy a summer home in Port Rexton, which is what they did.

That summer home then turned into a permanent residence, then a four-room B&B and then an Inn. John Fisher says he’s been quite the journey and they’re thankful for the friends they’ve made and the success they’ve had. He says putting the self-published book together was a labour of love and they wanted to include some of the many people who have inspired them along the way.

Among the people they profile are members of the Jones family who supply the inn with fresh fish. He says the family endured the cod moratorium which completely upended their lives, and yet they’ve managed to carry on fishing and are now fishing with their children and grandchildren.

The book, which includes recipes for meals served at the inn, is currently available in major bookstores in St. John’s and they hope to have it widely available across the province in the not-too-distant future.