Me reading infront of our bedroom

Golden Bay

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March 7th 2008
Date visited: 7-12 March Sunny warm and very green, approaching Golden Bay after the chilly and cloudy southern regions of late felt as though we were going back through a seasonal time warp into the summer again after a bracing encounter with the South Islands autumn. A temperature difference of over 10 degrees accompanied by the hot sun and blue seas, the sound of crickets, and tuneful Tui's ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island

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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