Franz Josef Glacier behind me

The giant cut out figure beside me is warning that it is dangerous to go any further as ice can break away from the glacier. Two people were killed recently when this happened. The dark area that looks like the mouth of a tunnel is the bottom of the glacier.

Swanning around South Island

March 1st 2011
Geo: -44.6987, 169.133Where do I start this blog? First of all apologies for not posting anything recently. As we moved to South Island we soon realised that wifi was difficult to access and expensive when it is available. We arrived in Wellington on the Sunday evening, 20th February and ran into difficulty. We have come to trust the GPS in the car but she (it is a woman's voice) let us down ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Central Otago » Wanaka

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

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