Seals on the rocks

Milford and bye bye to the South Island

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December 25th 2008
Well we had a fairly early start this morning for us, out for 8.00am. We were picked up by Deno, our coach driver and host for the day and then off to Milford Sound. Milford is a fjord and only after the second world war did machinery get up there to help forge out the road, up until then it had all been dug by hand, some feat. As we got further along the way the landscape became more and more sp ... 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