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Flying low! - Volcanic Air Safari

December 19th 2012
Well you have to do something different on holiday! Some come to New Zealand to Bungy Jump but for me I could not eventually resist the lure of a trip in an Otter Seaplane from Lake Rotorua to view Mount Tarawera and the surrounding thermal area. This was a late afternoon, spur of the moment trip. We took off from Lake Rotorua just outside our hotel and flew SW over the Crater Lake District (ra ... read more
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New Zealand Flag 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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