Cracking photo, Gromit

SFA around the Bay of Plenty

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March 7th 2009
Well after leaving Thornton - there are no other words to describe it - we just bum about for a while. We head south along the coast to a place called Ohiwa and on our first day there - guess what? It p*sses it down again. We're developing a custom for rainy days - if it's raining when we wake up, we tend to go to the nearest town for an all day breakfast. Good custom eh? As we were driving throug ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Bay of Plenty » Whakatane

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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