Looking up

Saturday - 2000 year old trees

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September 27th 2008
We've been here a week now and realizing how fast time is going and how much we wanted to do is not going to happen we make some decisions about what to actually do. We head for the Waipoua Forest as planned but decide that we need to get going east and not spend as much time up north as we had hoped. The Waipoua Forest added another 5% gray hair to both of us. We did not see straight road for ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Dargaville

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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