The Bay of Islands, a bit more of Auckland and the end of the New Zealand journey.....
October 19th 2006 The best and the rest of the north……..
In my opinion, the Coromandel Peninsula and the Bay of Islands were the best part’s of the north island for me. Might have had something to do with the weather being half decent…it was slightly sunny…still freezing. After leaving Taupo we left for Rotorua which stunk of egg. I’m not kidding either, that place stank….I suppose I better explain w
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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 
