The Channel Islands National Park encompasses five islands and their ocean environment, preserving and protecting a wealth of natural and cultural resources. Isolation over thousands of years has created unique animals, plants, and archeological resources and preserved a place where visitors can experience coastal California as it once was. Althoug...

Shuswap Lake in British Columbia's southern interior is the houseboating capital of Canada Sometime between being shot out of the waterslide like a cannon ball and jumping off the top deck into shimmering Shuswap Lake, we declare houseboating our new favourite way to vacation. But, of course, there will also be simple lounging in the sunshine, awe-...

St. Pete Beach on Florida's Gulf of Mexico was first named St. Petersburg Beach, when it was incorporated in 1957. Then, in 1994, its residents voted for a name change to St. Pete Beach, to make the distinction between their city and that of St. Petersburg, a few miles to the east. And the name defines this destination, offering, as it does, a 'ste...

Connecticut, Massachusetts and New Hampshire have been listed in the top 10 healthiest US states, according to the 28th annual report from the United Health Foundation and American Public Health Association. The Association, which examined 35 measures including environment, obesity and air pollution, also highlighted Maine and Rhode Island. New Eng...

A great beach and much more beside Longboat Key, an affluent Gulf Coast community located between Sarasota Bay and the Gulf of Mexico, forms the Bradenton Gulf Islands with the adjoining Anna Maria Island. For the traveller, Longboat Key's attraction is its 12 miles of wonderful white sand beach and string of fine dining restaurants and elegant wat...

It's all about the white-sand beach, azure ocean and luxe digs at this new resort zone north of Cancun. Just south of where the Caribbean Sea collides with the Gulf of Mexico is a stunning and spiritual nexus. It's here, a little shy of the northern tip of the Isla Blanca peninsula, that the white-sand Play Mujeres meets dual-coloured water the hue...