Day 4. Bay of Islands

A great day of visiting fascinating places. My Blip is of the Meeting house at Waitangi. This house stands not for just one tribe but for the whole country . Waitangi is where the treaty between Maori Chiefs and the newly arrived English officials was signed in 1840. The version in Maori that the Chiefs signed was asking for Governance. The English version used the word Sovereignty. The lack of understanding of the difference between those words underlay many of the subsequent uprisings and wars and still echoes down the years to the current day.

The extra is the concert party who performed for us in the Meeting house. There was also a well appointed museum and a traditional war canoe on display.  

As well today we rode on an old steam train and visited a Bird Zoo that has 300 parrots.