First bear sighting

Vancouver, San Francisco, Hawaii

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October 9th 2007
Well all my promises of regular updates due to my new digital camera have proved to be, as I suspected, a load of rubbish. But I only have one month and a bit to update, which is better than normal. From Vancouver I went to Vancouver Island, which proved to be pretty expensive to get around by bus, so I had to limit myself to a couple of places. I started off with Port Alberni, where I met a Ge ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Auckland

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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