Swimming With Dolphins etc 90 Mile Beach

Swimming With Dolphins etc

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June 2nd 2006
What a bit of luck, it was never the intention to head north of Auckland, yet here I am nearly a week in NZ and I've not been south of Auckland. I got a free 3 day trip to Northland before venturing south so been having a whale, or should that be a dolphin of time, anyway this is what I've done. Wednesday 31st - up and outside hostel at 7am, in my new 'billabong' shorts and sandals, bad idea, ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand

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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