Salmon fishing on the Canadian West Coast is one of the first tourism sectors to open as COVID restrictions ease. The big salmon are biting like crazy off the northern tip of Vancouver Island. COVID hasn't changed that. But what the pandemic did change is how the West Coast sport fishing tourism sector is rebounding after two months of lockdown. Fo...

Ship-wreck snorkelling and luxe-resort accommodation are just the ticket to feel special in Barbados. The Bajan Queen partied too hard. And now she's at the bottom of the Caribbean Sea. But, all is good. This 45-metre tugboat, which toiled for years at the port in Bridgetown, Barbados and finished out her above-water life as a tourist-party boat, w...

A rainforest hike outside Auckland, New Zealand reveals waterfalls, towering ferns, palm trees and a black-sand beach. At first, the rain is barely a mist on my face. Feather-soft and refreshing, the tiny droplets have somehow navigated their way through the thick canopy of trees, massive ferns and vines. Before long, the precipitation is a steady ...

As we emerge from the urban, palm tree forest, there it is. The 17,500-seat SAP Centre, a silver-sided edifice better known as the Shark Tank, is the home rink of the National Hockey League's San Jose Sharks. This is definitely going to be NHL hockey, California-style. My son, Alex, and I have walked three blocks up downtown's main drag of Santa Cl...

This little overseas territory of the UK is home to Barbary apes. We affectionately name our favourite Gib. Admittedly, it's not a very original moniker for an adorable baby monkey on the little peninsula of Gibraltar. After all, Gib is the nickname of this seven-square-kilometre chunk of rock in the Mediterranean, which is an overseas territory of...

Taylor Baptiste draws the bow back and, bam, shoots the arrow straight into the heart of the bear cub. Don't fret, this isn't a real, live bear cub, but a plastic bruin-shaped target. It's been set out with a similarly fake badger for our archery session on the sage flats of Canada's only desert in the southern tip of British Columbia's Okanagan Va...