A Dusky Dolphin

Sealing Good and Having a Whale of a Time

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March 5th 2007
Hi All I hope you're well. Since I last updated you I've travelled across to the bottom of the North Island, stopping in various places, including Windy Wellington (it's already windy, not just because I was there). We travelled across on the ferry to the South Island. It's beautiful!!! The landscape is so different. Not as green in some ways but very green in others. Upon our travels on the East ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Kaikoura

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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