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special entry :)

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November 23rd 2008
went ot Waitomo caves today (sunday) 8 of us (adam, jody, kate, taz, me, sarah, sascia and charlotte) hired a people carrier and drove down! was awesome, went to Ruakuri cave first, so many stalagmites and stalagtites!! was amazing!! then onto the glow worm caves, we were taken round on the under ground lake to the glow worms in the dark on a boat. was absolutely beautiful, like so many stars in ... 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