The South Island: Bloody Sandflies

The South Island; Bloody Sand Flies !!

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January 21st 2007
Tuesday 16th January to Thursday 18th January 2007. We didn't push north from Queenstown until 11am having spent an hour looking around the picuresque but essentially tourist hotspot town and whilst Marg had called her hubby, daughter and sister which had undoubtedly put a spring in her step as well as succeeding in banishing the upset stomach from which she'd been suffering the previous night ... 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