Updating blog on ferry

25th January 2008

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January 25th 2008
25th January 2008 Today we had an early start to catch the ferry to the South Island from Wellington. We had to be at the ferry terminal at 7:25am to board the Inter Island Kaitaki Ferry. The Cook Straight was very calm today although it can be a very rough stretch of water. In the South Island the ferry goes up the Tory channel into Queen Charlotte Sound to Picton. In all it is a journey of 92 k ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Kaikoura

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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