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New Zealand One Ocean – Too Much Love

New Zealand has gained a reputation for its attention to, and concern with, the environment in general and its own unique and diverse flora and fauna in particular. Blessed with thousands of miles of some of the world’s most beautiful coastline, the island country is more fortunate than most in some respects, but it is [...]

Waihi Beach Top 10 Holiday Resort Awarded Business of the Year

In the 2011 Tauranga Westpac business award the prestigious award of Business of the Year was given to the Waihi Beach Top 10 holiday resort. It was cited as having a positive impact on the Waihi Beach community due to it being a popular and outstanding tourism business. Travellers have been coming here for decades [...]

Tourism Bay of Plenty opens beaches

Tourism operators in the Bay of Plenty are looking forward to this summer season with the good news that from tomorrow all the beaches will be open to the public, says the general manager of the Tourism Bay of Plenty, Glenn Ormsby. He said that the announcement was fantastic news that would give assurance to [...]

Tauranga’s little blue penguins are heading home.

A good-sized crowd turned out at Maunganui Beach last Tuesday to watch 60 of the one foot tall, slate blue feathered, de-oiled penguins hustling off towards their native home on Rabbit Island. Quite a few in that crowd were volunteers who helped in cleaning up both beaches and wildlife after the MV Rena oil spill [...]

Te Kahas Beaches New Zealand

Te Kaha, situated at 70 km from Opotiki and 264 km from Gisborne was once an old whaling settlement and the setting of missionary activities and was also a site that underwent many [...]

Bethells Te Henga Auckland Beach

Bethells Beach or Te Henga, as the Maori named the site due to the particular shape of the sand dunes, is a symbol of New Zealand’s culture and traditions.

Old Maori tales narrate that a woman named Egangi jumped from the edge of this site with her child, to swim after [...]

Poor Knights Islands Whangarei New Zealand

If you travel as far North as possible within New Zealand you will find yourself in the enchanting region of Whangarei which offers natural beauty as far as the eye can see. It also has its own sense of regional uniqueness which is why you will want to make it a point to travel so [...]

The great white shark likes to holiday in New Zealand

The great white shark is considered one of the ocean’s most terrifying residents. This predator can swim thousands of kilometres when migrating, and many actually return to the same original home area. This discovery has been made by New Zealand scientists after a six-year study.

On Thursday this study was issued, and it was found that [...]

The Chatham Islands

The Chatham Islands are a group of islands belonging to New Zealand and are located about 800km east of the main islands in the South Pacific. Because of its location near the eastern border it has been branded with the slogan “First to see the sun marked”.

Administratively the islands belong to any region or district [...]

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