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On the beach!

Lake Tekapo
Mount Cook & Lake Tekapo

September 26th 2007
Lakes & Mountains Left Nat & Ryan at Wood End Beach and drove through Rangiora and Oxford (lots of English place names over here) on the scenic drive to Mount Cook National Park. We stopped at Fairlie for lunch and then set up camp at Lake Tekapo, at a great little campsite with stunning views of the lake. The water was a perfect turquoise against the brilliant white of the snowy mountai ... read more
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New Zealand Flag 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
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