Me on the boat

just to prove I really did go out to sea. Behind me is the entrance to the Sound - you can see how Captain Cook managed to miss it entirely :-)

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Fiordland

December 10th 2008
Not a theme park, but the Fiordland national park, part of the South West New Zealand World Heritage Area. (Called Te Wahipounamu in Maori, which means 'the place of greenstone'). I took a trip here out of Queenstown to visit Milford Sound. Most people do a crazy day trip which involves 4 hours on a coach there and back, so I decided to do it over a couple of days, and stayed overnight in Te Anau ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island

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

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