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July 27th 2006
Hi everyone from Lake Tekapo. Before we tell you about our amazing flight in a six seater Cessna that we took last week, best we take you back to our last few days in Dunedin. As reported we hired a car for a couple of days. On the first day we set off for the southern parts of the island. You are probably getting as fed up of reading about it as we are of saying it BUT the scenery on our trip wa ... 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