Arapawa Island -- "Slave Island"
December 4th 2008 I spent the last eight daze WWooFing on Arapawa Island. It's a 25 km long isle with a residential population of 40. Home to the whaling stations of old and WWII military outposts, its channel is the gateway through to the South Island. I had to board the only transport available to get there, the biweekly running mail boat. Now when they said, "Just jump on the mail boat." I had pictured a weather
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