Tunnel Beach March 13 2011 053

A Day At Tunnel Beach

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March 13th 2011
The weather here in New Zealand can start rainy and finish hot and sunny or flip and be freezing. Finally, the perfect day had arrived for an exploratory journey to Otago's Tunnel Beach, just outside Dunedin. Being a ginger, I haven't spent much time at the beaches growing up in Ontario, as I have never tanned but rather freckle and burn, I often joke of my combustibility. But I was prepared for a ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Dunedin

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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