Overlooking Smails and Birds Island

Chillin in the Summertime

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December 28th 2005
Spent the days between Christmas and New Year checking for surf and hiking up the hills around Dunedin. Smails beach and Tunnel beach - pictured here are both city beaches - ie less than 20 mins drive from downtown. ... 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