Back Across The Strait With Two Bags of Fish And Chips and Then North to Lawrence
May 7th 2021 We are starting to wake up later each morning it seems on this Grand Tour of the South Island and this morning was no different.
However we were awake in time to see the sunrise over the Mutton bird Islands to the east of Half-moon Bay, and it was a stunning one at that with the orange sky throwing a special light over the water of the bay.
As we were in no hurry because our flight out wasn’
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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 
