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 I have always been a keen walker.  I love nothing better than getting out in the fresh air and exercising either with friends or on my own.  It has been a favourite pastime my whole life.  For the last 30 years I have walked around 5 kilometres twice a week with a good friend.  We have enjoyed solvin...

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 New Zealand is crammed full of beautiful places but despite having lived here all my life I find there are always more to discover.  I had long planned to walk along the Te Waihou River to visit the Blue Springs but never quite got around to it.  As luck would have it it was a planned hike with the Auckland Global Trekkers hiking group, which I have joi...


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 To enter the Daintree Forest you first cross the Daintree River on a car ferry.  It is an apt way to enter this incredible prehistoric world, home to the Kuku Yalanji people for at least 60,000 years.  The Daintree is reputed to be the oldest rain forest on earth at approximately 135 million years, millions of years older than the Amazon rain forest.  ...


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 It's an intriguing name, isn't it? Why would a gloriously pristine beach bordered by ancient rain forest have such a depressing sort of name?  Well the answer is that it was on a reef just beyond the beach that Captain James Cook's ship, HM Endeavour, ran aground on a coral reef and began to take in water. The ship was in danger of sinking but with remarkable in...


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