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Woofing at Kim & Elspeth's

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November 1st 2014
Just finished a week's woofing in Mapua, which is near the Abel Tasman National Park up in the northern bit of the South Island. The landscape here is different again! I'm still not getting to grips at how diverse this country is in natural landscapes. Here, we are surrounded on one side by large shallow estuaries which half the day look like lakes and the other half look like deserted beaches, an ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Abel Tasman National Park

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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