The Beach, Mission Beach

One to another - or "Goodbye Oz, Hello EnZed!"

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October 24th 2005
Last time I wrote I had just returned salted, bronzed and thoroughly exhausted from my trip through the Whitsunday Islands. In the two weeks or so since it's been all change and I now sit in a comfortable leather-bound chair in Invercargill, New Zealand. Much has happened and much cash has been spent (see why soon) and hopefully, this should be fairly brief... After Airlie and the Whitsundays, ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Southland » Invercargill

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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