More thermal bits...

Chillin!

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March 17th 2008
After an adventurous morning of jumping out of planes we headed to Wai-O-Tapu thermal area - a much calmer environment! Here we saw lots of craters and mud pools that were a variety of different colours due to the minerals in the rocks; there were green, red, orange, blue and black, all were very impressive if not a little smelly! The following day we drove down to the coast stopping at Himatan ... 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