GG and PaPa at Fox Glacier

Fox Glacier

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March 7th 2013
Today we bid a fond fairwell to Queenstown. After a light breakfast, we once again were on the road heading towards the West Coast to Fox Glacier. We drove up over the mountains passing beautiful lakes, rivers, streams, livestock grazing in the fields. The scenery here is amazing. We stopped along the way to take photos and stopped at a wayside restaurant for lunch. After lunch, it didn't seem ... read more

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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