Daily Dose 10.19

Iceland has resumed commercial whaling, and tourists have responded by canceling trips there…

Saturday is the annual Bridge Day Festival at New River Gorge in West Virginia. Skydivers and rapellers draw the crowds, whitewater rafting is nearby…

A worldwide competition has produced the Wildlife Photographs of the Year show at London’s Natural History Museum, opening Saturday and continuing through April, then going on a world tour. Read about it at the BBC Web site…

If your outdoor explorations bring you close to dangerous wild animals, Budget Travel has some advice for staying safe…

A slideshow of New Guinea’s newly discovered species of exotic orchids, online at National Geographic…

Two months on a Tuscan farm… a dispatch from the world of Slow Travel.