Road Trippin' NZ Style: Top of the South Island and Snowboarding in Queenstown
July 12th 2007 After a short 4 hour ferry journey we were finally on the South Island after a week and a bit in the North, Road Trippin' NZ Style: The North Island. We were heading west towards the famed and beautiful Abel Tasman National Park to do a bit of a hike. We found a spot near where all the water taxis leave from and settled down for the night. Us guys mucked around a bit, Deadman lost (and then retrie
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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 
