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Home Port Farm

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February 24th 2010
I spent the weekend at a little place called Home Port Farm. It was a nice little farm out in the countryside surrounding the city of Whangarei and home to a very nice couple, Cathy and Howard. I got lost a few times getting there and had to make a few calls to them in order to figure out where it was that I was actually going, but in the end Howard was standing out on the driveway waiting for my ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Whangarei

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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