Ninety Mile Beach

Journey to Lands End

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December 19th 2006
Our home for the majority of our stay in New Zealand is a Toyato Lucida Sleepervan. Very basic, essentially just a people carrier with the seats in the back replaced with a matress, but it will do us nicely. Anyway, we picked it up from the rental company in Auckland and then hit the road, heading north up the west coast. We drove for a couple of hours and then stopped for the night at Matakohe To ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » North 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