Heron Hill House Kerikeri

... ein Neuseeland, in dem die Maori den englischen Siedl**n Aufenthalt **laubten - schnell wandelte sich dieses Vorhaben um: Neuseeland sollte von englischen Siedl**n v**waltet w**den, die die Maori **duldeten.
Wie auch imm**, inn**halb von 4 Tagen schrieb d** Missionar Hobson einen V**trag und liess ihn inn**halb nur ein** Nacht auf Maori ueb**setzen. Am 6.2.1840 trafen sich die Missionare und Maori und es unt**schrieben 40 Maori-Haeuptlinge den V**trag. Kopien ...

... Islands angemeldet. Das Wetter war uebrigens auf der gesamten Nordtour ziemlich trueb und wolkig. In unserem Zimmer war noch ein total chilliger Bayer, der sich 3-4 Monate Zeit im Jahr rausnimmt um zu Reisen. Klaus (der Bayer) ist jetzt 40 und hat schon ueber 193 Laender der Erde bereist und hatte daher echt geile Storys zu erzaehlen!! Am Abend gings dann so um 5 Uhr los mit unseren Kanus. Wir ...

... and brought peace to land when his parents were arguing (that is the cliff notes version). The forest is very tropical with its fern and palm trees. you's think you're in hawaii or thailand. Amanda again: So instead of relaying exactly what we did every day and where we went (some days it wasn't much!) I thought I'd offer some observations about NZ so far. Today's observation: Birds. Some of you may know that there were originally no mammals on NZ ...

Kerikeri-Paihia (again) Distance - 27.35km, Average speed 19.23km/hr, number of cheese sandwich's stopped for 1. * I left Kerikeri, even though I do think work might have been genuinely going to start tomorrow but like all my idea's 'stopping to pick fruit' was brilliant but I'm over it, I'm a very fickle person (as some of you know well). * I'm back in Paihia (97km just seemed a bit ...

... a supposed mechanical engineer he sure knew how to get every repair he did to the thing just a little bit wrong. Like install the wrong master and slave cylinders on the clutch. Bravo university education...bravo. Honkey Mofo #5- Old Slow Hand Rick. Rick was my boss at the construction site. A mumbly old man with no ability to communicate with employees. At all. You found out you did something wrong through gossip. Not a construction site but a girls club. Also the slowest ...

... know a fellow from London England. He's been travelling for a while and has stayed in New Zealand for five years, two of which have been on the North Island. He has stayed here in Paihia for two months and is planning to get a sky diving degree. I call him the adventure seeker, but he came from being a math teacher so I guess the numbers got to him. After breakfast and the usually morning rituals we decided to go check on the grants to see if Grandpa was able ...

... We've met lots of nice German boys, gone to a few beaches, had supper with a local, got first job jitters out of the way, and became more familiar with driving on the "wrong" side of the road. I really hope that all the other places we go have much more to do though. It's quite easy to get bored here if you don't have a job or people to hang out with. ONWARD AND UPWARD!!

... haste. My construction job was good. Once I got over the whole "YOUR A BACKPACKER YOU MUST BE A MORON" attitude i settled down into a monotony of simplistic irresponsibility. Oil the wood, wipe the wood off. Sand the wood too. Make it pretty. Carpenteria. Gulf of Carpenteria...beautiful place our pearl boat in Aussie almost went...even writing about my construction work my mind wanders. The saving grace of this job was the view. A long slowly widening valley ...

... and had a wonderful time being trailed and challenged by these amazingly brash little birds called fantails. It was as if they themselves were little faeries playing tag and hide and seek with us as we wandered through their domain. The Magnificent Kauri Trees Kauri are among the world's mightiest trees, growing to more than 50 metres tall, with trunk girths of up to 16 metres. They covered much of the top half of the North Island when the first ...

... here for 3 nights though I don't want to leave. The oldies have gone off to see the Treaty House this morning but I wasn't at all well last night so just chilling out this morning. I think I'm getting my just deserts for gloating so much over having no jet-lag. This afternoon we are hoping to head out onto the water to spot some Dolphins for dinner (only joking!). Mmmm Dolphin n Chips :o)