working away

Beaches and goodbyes

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January 10th 2010
We had a really nice day out here so Michelle, Joe, Clare, Nozomi and I headed out to the beach again. We went back to Taylor's Mistake beach and it was really busy. Nozomi liked to play around in the sand and she let me and Michelle bury her in the sand. I decided to make her into a mermaid. She did very well for being buried in sand for the first time. [url=http://www.facebook.com/album.ph ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Christchurch

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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