lake rotoiti 2

Marlborough Sounds to Westport

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May 9th 2010
We drove onto the ferry and scampered up on deck to get a good seat for the two hour journey (our training from all the times we use the jam packed Indonesian ferries!) and were partly taken back by the relative emptiness and availability comfortable seating. Not bad, we though and, although it was costing about 50 times as much as the other ferries we had taken, at least we could relax with a vi ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island

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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