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If You Go Down To The Woods Today

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April 2nd 2016
After breakfast I suggested we take a walk in the reserve before we started our long drive. I'd imagined an interesting woodland walk and it turned out to be intetesting, but not quite for the reasons I'd imagined. The mild arachnophobia and herpetophobia of Ed and Cas was soon stimulated by all the curved vines, strange noises, dropping leaves and cobwebs strung across the pathway! Three of us ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Mount Ruapehu

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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