By James Cook Glass House Mountains.... What are they? (stay tuned to the end of the post for a video!)The Glass House Mountains are not mountains in the traditional sense. Millions of years ago the whole area used to be covered with volcanos. Over time the lava in the...
By Jade Johnston OurOyster Is Live On RVNN TV There is nothing I find more terrifying than public speaking. Which is why I was both thrilled, and very very nervous, when I received an email from RVNN TV asking me to appear on their broadcast. But as a good friend of mine often...
Due to hosting issues, the comments for this article were lost. We apologize to anyone whose comment was lost, and we thank everyone who has taken the time to leave a comment.Last week we posted part 1 of a two part video series. In part 1, our friend Bryan told us of his...
Due to hosting issues, the comments for this article were lost. We apologize to anyone whose comment was lost, and we thank everyone who has taken the time to leave a comment.By Jade Johnston and James CookThe agriculture business is big in New Zealand. Every years...
By Jade JohnstonRecently at OurOyster, we thought that it might be nice to conduct interviews with some of the many interesting people we have met on our travels. Being novice interviewers however, we decided to test the concept out on our friend Joe Sherry. Joe was extremely...
By James Cook New Zealand's wildlife is rather unique for such a small country. Around 100 million (which sounds made up, but is a real number) years ago New Zealand split from the rest of the world. The handful of animals that remained after the split, evolved in complete...
By Jade Johnston"The Kiwi's are always quick to brag about how they have the biggest, oldest, tallest, and best of things - but do you notice how these statements are always followed by - 'in Australasia', or 'in the southern hemisphere?', they never have any statistics...
