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Abel Tasman National Park

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March 4th 2007
Having made some really lovely new friends on the Kiwi bus, we decided to go to Abel Tasman National Park for the day. We caught a bus early in the morning and then boarded a water taxi which took us to a northern beach in the National Park. On the way we saw lots of seals and their pups. Once dropped off on the beach we had 4 hours to walk back to a more southerly beach where the water taxi w ... read more

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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