Another SI bay

Stewart Island to Dunedin

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March 19th 2009
Sunday 15th March - Drove down to Invercargill - went up the Water Tower - only open on Sunday afternoons - Lyn overcame her fear of heights by looking through the cracks in the floor!!!!! Onwards to Bluff - the oldest European settlement in NZ ready to catch the morning catamaran to Stewart Island. Monday 16th March - Weather very foggy so couldn’t see much on the 1 hour trip over to the isla ... 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