The Bay of Islands, a New Zealand territory,has been the best port destination to date.

It has 144 islands, mostly inhabited.
We docked near the Waitangi Treaty Grounds  where the New Zealand history was made.
In fact we had to be ferried  15 minutes ashore by tenders, as the water near the land was too shallow to allow the Queen Victoria to dock in the port itself.
On 6 February 1840 a pact was signed  between Great Britain  and many Maori chieftains.
The Maori accepted  British Sovereignty and the crown offered protection of Maori land and possessions.The flagstaff marks the spot  where the treaty was signed,next to the house owned by James Busby,the first British representative in New Zealand and the brains behind the treaty.Not all Maori chieftains trusted the British.And quite rightly so.The greed and disregard for the natives soon reared its ugly head and when the Maori protested, they were told they misread the terms of the treaty.
Mr Busby had  neither  the will  nor the teeth to enforce it.
The house of James Busby is kept as an authentic simple museum.
There is a modern museum  in the Waitangi Treaty Grounds where the remains of the 1840 can be found.
6 February is a national holiday in New Zealand,it is celebrated as Waitangi Day.
There is in the Waitangi Treaty Grounds  a 120 ft long canoe built in 1940 named Ngatokimatawhaorua,after the canoe in which Kupe discovered New Zealand.
The 40 NZ dollars gets you the entry to the beautifully looked after grounds.I suggested the British should pay at least twice as much,as they had been the colonisers and I should be let off  completely.You should have seen the look on the faces of the Brits in the queue!