Sunset at Lake Tarawera

BBQ's, Bloodknots and Wallaby's at Lake Tarawera

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February 21st 2009
After we stayed at the duck campsite, we went into Rotorua to make a few purchases - a small BBQ, a solar shower (which is really a black water pouch that you lie in the sun to warm up) and a latern for those nights that we were away from a campsite. We traipsed about the mall in the blazing heat, visibly wilting and then made our way to a routine campsite at Ngongotaha (those names get better ... 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