Some of the mountains you can see on the road to Milford

Dolphins, a fiord and lunging on a boat.....

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August 26th 2006
Milford Sound…… Milford Sound was awesome. I can’t really do it justice in writing, it is such a special place to go and see. Someone described it as being similar to a landscape like that from Jurassic Park……quite true! It was beautiful. We stayed at a place called Te Anau the night before we set off for Milford Sound and it was a pleasant little place, with the usual assortment of ran ... 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