Coasteering in Snowdonia, Wales, the Ultimate Adventure

Looking for an action-packed excursion in Wales? Check out coasteering, a sport that follows a rocky coastline both in the water and out. It's a crazy mix of swimming, scrambling, leaping and caving - and Wales is the birthplace of the sport.

I'm balanced on a stone, eyeing a water worn gully between slippery rock walls and debating the best way to get down to it. "You can use my shoulder as a stepping stone," says Chris Thorne, owner of Snowdonia Watersports and the guide for our group's coasteering tour in Anglesey,...

Finding Dory [For an old-school East Coast angling adventure—and a rewarding scoff of freshly caught cod— climb aboard one of Newfoundland’s traditional fishing boats]

Holding a four-pound bronze codfish up by the gills, Darren Park declares, “That’s a prime Tbone fillet, right there.” Like many Newfoundlanders, Park takes pride today more than ever in hooking a single specimen of that most edible of fish, the great cod. From the way he says it, and because we share family histories in the fisheries, I suspect Park and I hold a sense of privilege and good fortune at still being...

SLEEPING WITH RHINOS

The two-ton monster stares at us through the front door of our tiny tent, its long, curved horn pointing like a dagger. If that’s not enough to stir us from slumber, four of its buddies have us surrounded. Without warning a scuffle breaks out between two of them, with plenty of snorting and foot stomping sending bits of dirt and gravel flying against our tent. Never again will we complain about not getting close enough to rhinos.

Marakele National Park

We're camped in South Africa's Marakele National Park, a beautiful spot in the...

Cycling Among the Mennonites

It’s not often you find yourself sitting in a Mennonite’s horse-drawn buggy. But here I was, snuggled under a dark-green fleecy blanket beside the bonnet-wearing, buggy-driving 67-year-old Viola Brubacher. Although it was only a short distance away, my bicycle, left back on the Brubacher farm, felt like something from a different life.

The sliding side doors of the buggy had large windows. Combined with the wide windshield in front of us, we were looking at a panoramic view of Ontario’s countryside. Straight roads sliced through dying corn...

Adventure travel: petting wolves at Quebec's Parc Mahikan

Is it crazy to want to kiss a wolf?

I have no fear as I enter the enclosure; I've been waiting for this moment for most of my life.

Created in 2009 by Gilles Granal, a Frenchman who raises sled dogs, Parc Mahikan (Cree for "wolf") is an eco-adventure park in the Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean region of Quebec, in Canada, that offers a unique experience: interaction with wolves.

"I think all people who have sled dogs love wolves. It's a mysterious animal," says Granal, who, with his tattoos of the animal and...