Peter at Wanaka

Queenstown - Wanaka - Lake Tepako - Ticked!

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October 6th 2009
Speed & Water!! Day 5: The day was perfect - crisp and cold with fresh snow on the Remarkables. We rug up and join a happy noisy netball team from Canberrra for a jetboat ride in the upper Shooter Valley. We climb past the ski fields at Coronet Peak (still open) and on a road that is SCARY - six years in building the road is a gravel rollercoaster that hugs the sides of the mountains winding about ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Lake Tekapo

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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