Hiking

You only live once...?!

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April 22nd 2007
Okay. i think the last time i wrote was in Franz Joseph right? i am blatently showing i have too much time on my hands...:S we travelled to Wanaka after Franz Joseph, stopping in Fox to pick up some people who had been skydiving. had a walk around Lake Matheson which literally mirrored the mountains in the background (mount cook being one of them) v cool. Wanaka was beautiful. in a vall ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Queenstown

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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