Glow worms

Taupo

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June 8th 2007
Since my last blog this is what I have been up to... We went to Hot water beach - where there is a thermal stream underground so you hire a spade and dig your own hole until it fills with water and you get your own spa. Well we had a go at that but all our holes were cold! Everyone around us had steam coming out of their holes though, so in the end we pinched someones hot hole when they left. ... read more

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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