Old Dunstan Rd

NASEBY TO PAERAU VIA GORGE ROAD

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April 22nd 2007
Today we were to have a go at our first real 4WD off road trip, we had chosen Gorge Road, a short route over high level farm land from Hamilton's to Daisybank near Hyde, these three places were already familiar to us as we had cycled though Hyde and Daisybank when we completed the Otago Central Rail Trail in 2005. Hamilton's is also the birth place of several of my relations including that of my ... 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