New Years Day

Browns Bay, Rangitoto, Rothesay Bay

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January 1st 2009
Think we had the best New Years Days ever this year, we went to Browns Bay and laid in glorious sunshine. A beautiful day (thank goodness as everyone was blaming us for the downpour of rain on New Years Eve!)......we went back to Marion and Johns for dinner and played a quiz and Jayn was drinking! The quiz was good fun and probably beat Christmas Day as it was loads of people getting together an ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Auckland

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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