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Colville and Beyond

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January 16th 2007
On the 16th we drove 30kms north of Coromandel to Colville. Colville is a one street, 10 houses town. Here we stayed on a farm stay backpackers. Our main reason for staying in Colville was to do the Fletcher Bay to Stoney Bay walk. This walk started at the top of the Coromandel Peninsula, the drive was windy gravel road that took us1hr and 10 mins to do. At one point it took us 20mins to go 6km. T ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Coromandel

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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