Billy's Cousins

Glacier Country

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February 19th 2008
We spent a couple of days in Hokitika, a small town just south of Greymouth, staying at the Shining Star Holiday Park, a pleasant beach-side campsite with fancy log cabins and nicely landscaped grounds. They have a small farmlet there, home to some of Billy's cousins, a couple of sulky (bored?) alpacas, a few pigs, and several chickens let loose around the grounds, free to feed on whatever they c ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Franz Josef

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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