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Courtesy of Flickr/pentaboxes Welcome to Oyster! Your online authority on all things hot springs. And Canada. Just kidding — as you know, we’re hotel experts, but perhaps you’ve noticed our obsession of late with geothermal hot springs and Canadian travel destinations. Of course, outdoor hot springs in Canada are a mind-blowingly magical combo of the…
After learning how to scuba dive, you might be most excited to see all the reefs, with their brightly colored coral and fish. But the entire ocean is at your fingertips — and that includes shipwrecks. Shipwrecks litter the ocean floor, and many are within reasonable scuba diving depths. When it comes to wreck diving,…
The world we live in is turbulent, without a doubt, and that applies to the literal planet, too. Beneath the Earth’s crust churns a vast pool of magma, just waiting to break through the surface. Volcanoes shaped this planet, and humans have been fascinated by them — and slightly afraid of them — for millennia.…
A sunny, 60-degree day sounds perfect — that is, unless you’re in Antarctica in middle of March. Earlier this month, the World Meteorological Organization confirmed that the continent set a new record high temperature (63.5 degrees Fahrenheit) in March 2015. This news comes after a recent University of Delaware study concluded that Adelie penguins in…
Cherry blossom season is a short and sweet affair that only lasts around two weeks, though many people spend months anticipating the beautiful and delicate blossoms. While most blooms are typically a pale pink or snow white hue, there are more than 600 varieties of cherry blossom trees that burst in colors such as bubble…
Far-flung Fiji is about as close to paradise as it gets. Even the word itself, with its cheerfully dotted letters, is aesthetically (and phonetically) pleasing and will likely conjure up exotic tropical fantasies of flitting off to the South Pacific, and perhaps never looking back. This archipelago of more than 300 islands (only about one-third…
Australia’s well known for its sun, surf, and sand, and the beaches on the Gold Coast don’t disappoint. With more than 20 picture-perfect beaches in the area, you can’t go wrong by booking your next vacation here. After all, it’s called the Gold Coast for a reason. Visitors come from all over the world to…
Here’s a thing moms like to tell their adventurous children who decide to visit Australia: “You know, there’s more there that can kill you than anywhere else on earth.” And while that’s not exactly true, there are certainly enough dangerous things in Australia to scare off even the most stalwart adventurer. In fact, doing these…
From our Instagram feeds to our book club picks to blogs like yours truly, travel inspiration can be uncovered anywhere. Movies, too, can trigger some serious wanderlust—and inspire us to go on an adventure through nature (“Into the Wild”), book an impromptu trip to Los Angeles (“La La Land”), road trip with our best friends…
Not so long ago, Pluto was demoted and we lost a planet. Now, it seems as if we might be faced with a similar situation—only this time it affects Earth’s continents. Don’t worry, we’re not losing one. In fact, it’s quite the opposite. According to research, geologists are saying New Zealand and several surrounding islands…