Terry and Hector

Little Mick, Noodle, Teaki and Hector

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March 4th 2007
We met up with Helen Mesure (a fellow osteopath) in Kaikoura yesterday and went whale watching. Very surreal meeting someone for a day out half way arround the world though. From the information centre we were all bused to a large high speed katamaran. We went for about 30 min out to the open sea and then it was more Whale hunting then watching for most of the time. The Maori captain of the ship ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Kaikoura

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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