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Pataua

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October 25th 2007
Today we paddled in the Pacific. We drove to Pataua and you can walk over a rickety bridge to the other side of the estuary, and then you can get to the Pacific beach. No-one there, except 2 people walked along to us and kindly took a picture of us both. At another beach we watched a bottle nosed dolphin being rescued from a shallow sandbank in the distance. ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Whangarei

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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