Apey New Year 2013

Day 21 - Back on the beautiful but boring briney sea (31 December 2012)

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December 31st 2012
Heading west and rocking on the waves of the Tasman Sea, I think that we took some advantage of that extra hour's sleep. Don woke the ship up with a colossal sneeze at about 5 am. His cold is breaking out. We went in for breakfast and as usual closed the restaurant. We were looking at a map of Victoria to Melbourne with Sylvia and Michael. We are driving there from Sydney and they advised u ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand

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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