Apartment in Nelson

Weather - Wet Wind and Sunshine

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December 15th 2006
Left Kaikoura in a veritable storm horizontal thunderstorm - drove north up the coast on what should have been a scenic road to rival the Pacific drive down Big Sur fortunate road was just too far from the beach for the bigger waves to reach us. However after an hour or so (after we'd left the coast) the weather abated. We decided to head for Nelson as the weather forecast for there was better, pi ... 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