Flipper

A pod of around 150 dusky dolphins on our first trip. These were a pod of around 30 Bottlenose dolphins, swimming and playing alongside the boat. We went on a swim with dolphins trip but we couldn't go in the water due to young being with the pod and conservation issues to do with that. I was gutted (the opposite of stoked)

Under down under

March 30th 2007
I hope you'll excuse the length of this one, but due to being unencumbered with such annoyances as work, and having a 6 week mad dash to see the entire country, we did get up to rather a lot. I assure my faithful readers the next blog will return to the usual neglectful brevity. The Mauri driver dropped us off at the Jail around midnight, stiffling a chuckle at our answer to his usual tourist/ ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand

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

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