biking to L&P Town (PAEROA)

800 km bike trip for charity

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December 19th 2008
Our mission was to bike a whopping 800 kms from Hamilton to Mahia Peninsula (just south of Gisborne) via the coastal road. This journey is a celebration of the opportunity that is life - of getting back up and again taking on challenges. A once extreme adventurist fought for his life after a freak accidental fall off a 12 metre cliff. Twenty months later he has miraculously bounced right b ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » East Coast

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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