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View from Campsite towards Mt Aspiring  
   

View from Campsite towards Mt Aspiring

We were wondering what it was aspiring to when Wendy noticed it was 9964ft high and suggested ot might be aspiring to 10,000 ft
Tis the Season to be Jolly

December 25th 2006
Christmas Eve went Christmas shopping (only for food and sunglasses for me (to replace the ones I'd left in Lesley's garden). In the afternoon we climbed the nearby Mt Iron coming across a very young quail hiding under the seat at the viewpoint on the top. Every time anyone with small children arrived they would gather round the poor thing making it impossible for the parents (if they were around) ... read more
Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Otago

New Zealand Flag 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
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