Kate and the Giant Kiwi

From Rotorua to Russell and Kiwis to Kauris

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March 15th 2006
Greetings all, Left Taupo on Friday 10th and headed to the Coromandel Peninsula via Rotorua. Elected to skip visiting more thermal pools in favour of the Fat Dog Cafe - an inspired move since it was our best breakfast yet. Stocked up on some huge slabs of cake too just incase Coromandel turned out to be as cakeless as Taupo. Passed a Kiwi Farm enroute so had a good scout round and made the m ... read more

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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