Getting ready for NY in the Marlborough Sounds

L-R round the table Me, Joanne, Caroline, Aileen, Sam, Helen

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Starting 2006 in style!

January 4th 2006
After our night in Nelson it was back on the bus again - this time to Picton where we met up with some more of the girls, Joanne (another brit) and Delis (a kiwi), and got a boat over to Furneaux lodge in the Marlborough Sounds... home for the next 3 nights. We'd chosen to spend New Years here for a number of reasons... we wanted to be near the sea but away from the hussle of a big town or city ( ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Marlborough » Queen Charlotte Sounds

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

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