Waitangi Treaty Grounds (01 January 2008)

The Treaty House behind us has a special place in New Zealand history. It was here that the British Empire and the Mauri tribes signed their treaty of understanding.


Nearby, Lorena in front of the Meeting house - built in 1840 to commemorate the centenary of the treaty.


John in front of a 35m long Maori war canoe, modelled after the canoe in which the Polynesian navigator Kupe discovered New Zealand.

Now it is time to head west, there is much to see and not enough time!