patukakawa tree

first 10 days in Coromandel

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January 24th 2011
Coromandel -The First Ten Days A rocky stream burbles over rounded rocks and boulders as it rushes off steep forested mountains. Fluffy fair-weather clouds drift on a clear sky and the woodsy air is scented by many flowering trees. We are camped just above the stream bank in a tiny orchard clearing in the forest, a hundred meters down a mossy path and across the water on a foot bridge, from ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Coromandel Peninsula

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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