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Tuaranga and Auckland

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February 9th 2013
Hi everyone Over the last two days we visited Tauranga and Auckland. Apart from a little glitch in Tauranga where we were pelted by freezing stinging torrential rain the weather was fabulous in both ports Today we are cruising through 4 metre swells. It doesn’t seem like it though. I guess I am used to the rocking and rolling now. From Tauranga we got a tour around the sights of Rotorua. T ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Auckland

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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