Sam Sumners Hut

Back to Queenstown

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December 23rd 2010
Last coffee from Kai Whaka Pai before leaving Wanaka for a while again. Strangely, Wanaka has been pretty quiet all the time I've been here. Which has been quite nice. But I think the holiday-ing families are arriving now for their Xmas BBQ by the lake. Glendhu Bay (part way round the lake) is filling up with caravans - a very british thing moved half way round the planet and much less out of ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Queenstown

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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