The tunnel is nearly 100 years old

South to Hokitika for a Birthday Dinner

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April 24th 2021
One of our travelling party is having her birthday today. Whoops that gave it all away! It seems a bit unusual to be travelling on your birthday as it is normally time to sit back, kick your shoes off and be waited on rather than being the chief pilot of the rented Toyota Corolla with a few hundred kilometres of highway and scenery ahead. One fortunate feature of being independent travelle ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » West Coast » Hokitika

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The Polynesian Maori reached New Zealand in about A.D. 800. In 1840, their chieftains entered into a compact with Britain, the Treaty of Waitangi, in which they ceded sovereignty to Queen Victoria while retaining territorial rights. In that same year... ... read more