Fox & Franz Josef Galciers, Hokitika (land of gold & green stone) - Jimmy Archers Beach
November 20th 2008 30th October 2008
Today was the Glacier day! After a slow start at Lake Paringa (Pili couldn’t get out of the pit), toast and a meeting with an older American couple who were travelling in a car!! We headed toward the famous Fox Glacier. It only took us half an hour to get there as the view as we approach was awe-inspiring. The frozen river of ice was retreating back through the mountains, of c
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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 
