Glass Bottom boat tour

Goat Island Marine Reserve & Drive to Russell

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June 1st 2011
Dawn broke just before 7AM along the Port in Auckland. The hustle of the streets below was muted from our 12th floor room. Life slowly crept out of the bedrooms of the apartment. We formulated a plan to head up to our next destination of Russell, a small island town in the Northland region. We fired up our newly acquired GPS, christened "Gertrude" by Ivy. With the aid of our Australian-ac ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Goat Island

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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