Tennessee Aquarium Adding Additional Hours In May Friday, April 30, 2021
A guest gets up close with a turtle swimming in the Turtles of the World gallery - photo by Tennessee Aquarium/Casey Phillips
A giant Japanese Spider Crab showcases its tremendous size in the Boneless Beauties gallery. This species will be among those featured during May as part of the Aquarium’s Global Passport Program focus on Asian animals. - photo by Tennessee Aquarium/Casey Phillips
A masked guest views American Alligators in the Mississippi Delta Country gallery - photo by Tennessee Aquarium/Casey Phillips
Gentoo Penguins strut about the Penguins’ Rock gallery. This gallery has been a flurry of activity since April, which marked the start of the birds’ annual breeding season.
As travel opens up, glamping is helping ‘indoorsy’ families get outside
Camping fosters a love of nature. Here s how to make it easy in Canada and the U.S.
Yurt-style tents dot the grounds of Gatherwild Ranch in Germantown, New York. Camping with amenities can be a hassle-free experience for stressed-out families and individuals new to the outdoors.Photograph by Piotr Redlinski, The New York Times/Redux
ByHeather Greenwood Davis
Lauren Gay’s first experience tent camping left her cold.
“The temperature plummeted that night,” says Gay, who blogs at the Outdoorsy Diva. “We didn’t own sleeping bags, we just had tons of blankets, and it was not sufficient. It was a long miserable night.”
21 big trips we’re dreaming of
Super size me! Take one of these 21 big trips in 2021 (when we’re allowed) and meet tribes, spot rare creatures and cycle through mountains
1. Travel South America overland
See incredible landscapes in South America (Shutterstock)
Got annual leave to burn and a love of all things Latin? Now’s the time for that South American odyssey. Whether you choose to hop around on public transport, board an overland truck or do a mix of both, the route options are almost infinite; expect border hold-ups, landslides and bumpy roads, serendipitous encounters, warm camaraderie and breathtaking diversity. Allow six months to make a comprehensive circuit, taking in everything from Colombian coast to Amazon jungle, Inca ruins, Andean highlands, Argentinian pampa and Brazilian carnival spirit.
Watt’s ‘before and after’ photos have drawn worldwide attention to old-growth logging in B.C. (TJ Watt)
Falling fast
Three decades after the so-called ‘War of the Woods,’ the logging of B.C.’s ancient forests goes on, prompting protest from a new generation of eco-activists
April 13, 2021
It came as a bit of a shock to Shawna Knight, a 43-year-old mother of two who runs the Buddha Box, a locally sourced food outfit in Shirley, on Vancouver Island’s southwest coast. Co-founder of the famous Cold Shoulder Cafe in the local surfing mecca of Jordan River, Knight says she figured she was as clued in as anyone to what was happening in the wild world around her. “We hunt for mushrooms, we do nettles every spring. I felt like we were connected. But we weren’t. We so obviously were not.”