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Port William jetty, Rakiura Track. Photo: Shaun Barnett/Black Robin Photography
Beaches, birdlife and bountiful forest, the Rakiura Track is the best way to experience Stewart Island. Rakiura is known as the anchor stone of Maui’s canoe, used to secure his waka when he and his brothers fished up Te Ika a Maui, the North Island. So appropriately enough, a large chain sculpture at Lee Bay […]
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