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Invercargill... to Dunedin... and back to Queenstown

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June 16th 2005
At the end of the last blog I said there was too much to put into one, so here's the second part: We left Invercargill on Friday morning and spent the day driving through the Catlins, the south-east corner of the south island. The Catlins are a pretty coastal area with lots of nice bays and beaches, even beaches where you can swim with dolphins in the surf - typically only in summer though. T ... 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