glacier at sunset

argg to awe in just 2 days

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January 22nd 2006
argg!! chippy's exhaust pipe broke in half. yah yah, you can laugh....but it's not funny. we are stuck in this crappy industrial town with no car and nothing to do. bleck. and it's saturday so we have to be here til monday when the garages open again. i slept on all this negativity and now i'm over it. just 12 k's out of town is cape foulwind....another seal colony and some really rugge ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » West Coast » Westport

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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