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Day 80: Hot Water Beach‏

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February 27th 2013
No dramas on the bus this morning thank God! We rocked up at Hot Water Beach at around 2.30pm and headed straight down to the beach. Unfortunately so did 100 other people! We didn't succeed in finding our own hot spot to dig so we waited for a family to depart theirs and swooped in for the take-over. All the pleasure without any of the hard work digging the hole! The water was pretty warm, too ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Coromandel Peninsula

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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