Hot Water Beach 2

The Great Kilboran Antipodean Adventure - Episode Five - Creating a stink in Rotorua and having a deco at Napier!

---

January 14th 2018
A fond farewell to Whitianga today, but not before we grabbed the opportunity to capture a few sunrise snaps - although the cloud cover wasn't ideal, we still managed to get a few decent ones! But, we couldn't hang around too long because today we were really going to be in Hot Water.........literally, as it happens, because our first stop on the journey to Rotorua was 'Hot Water Beach'. About 40 ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Napier

---

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