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Documenting the cirumnavigation of Stewart Island

It’s big, really big. The wind is beating us down, 40kts of bitterly cold Southerly right in the face. Massive rollers moving in from the South-West smashing our laden boats around, before crashing into the West Coast bluffs and refracting back creating a turmoiled mess of water. The Southern Ocean was alive, and we were in our element, running the gauntlet trying to pass 10 km of relentless exposed coastline as we approached the South Cape and safe harbour, between two storm systems – a must make move to get South. 8 Days earlier the ferry docked in

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