I’m doing it to keep up with my grandkids

March 2023

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March 2023

Sue Lovatt is clocking her kilometres on Rakiura/Stewart Island.
Sue Lovatt is walking every day for herself and to keep up with her grandkids. “Sounds like a murder sometimes,” Sue Lovett says of the cries coming from kiwi she occasionally encounters on her walks around and beyond Oban on Rakiura. She has a natural inclination for remote locales; she and her husband spent some […]

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