Mount Cook

Kia Ora everyone

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March 31st 2007
Well, we are here and after a night in Christchurch we collected our (brand new only 600 Km on clock) Blue Moon Van and set off for a visit to Akoroa, a small peninsula town with French orgins, about sixty kilometres from Christchurch. We walked, visited the museum, ahd delicious fish and chips and freedom camped in down at Le Bons Bay, an even more isolated locations, infact we belived we might ... 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