Surat Bay

Where has the time gone???

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January 29th 2007
Yes, where has the time gone? 2 weeks since I updated the blog and it seems like a lifetime. We have been moving pretty quickly and consequently I have not been able to find internet machines/time etc to do an update. Still, I shall apologise no more,.,....... We left you on the East Coast in Oamuru where we had spent a miserable 2 days sheltering from the rain and waiting in vain for Penguin ... 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