Hokitika Gorge

Frozen tents and toes and laments

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April 5th 2008
Well, after our doubts over whether we would ever see the sun again in our last blog - we did!! On a tip that the weather was coming from the south we went south to the tourist town of Hokitika (although we were going there anyway...). The sun came out and we browsed shops selling local jade and had some fish and chips, (or seeing as 2/3 of us didn't eat fish.. just chips. Ben had a particularl ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Otago » Dunedin

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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