Stunning Sandfly beach by our house

Life on the Otago Peninsula

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December 18th 2007
After much anticipation, the gingerbread house is completed. Okay, so it is not a two story feat of culinary architecture or anything, but it's pretty cool. I've posted pictures of it. Duane's been doing more casual work, even worked in a bakery factory the other day. This involved putting bread pans onto a conveyor belt and taking empty pans off. He may have been offered free bread, but ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Otago

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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