Dig Dig Dig .......Sit

The beauty of knowing a friend of a friend of a friend!

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April 4th 2007
But not before a visit to Hot Water Beach, where you can dig a hole in the sand and sizzle the bottoms of your feet off in the EXTREMELY hot water that bubbles out of it. Well, thats the idea anyway....if you get the tides right! Guess what?! We didn't! We arrived to find the tide coming in, a serious amount of people - most of whom were armed with mini spades and that there was a queue to dig a ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Bay of Plenty

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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