Snow Cover at Franz Josef

May 1st 2010
The first of May - where has the time gone? Today is the first day of the duck shooting season and apparently the sound of shotguns was resounding round the valley. We didn’t notice, any more than we noticed the trucks or the trains - we had a lovely sound sleep! What a difference a day makes - the sun was shining brightly this morning and the mountains were crystal clear - there was snow on ... 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

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