Arid Island is a terrific and underappreciated cruising destination.
Arid Island is a terrific and under-appreciated cruising destination. And quite exclusive too, given its tiny yet charming anchorage.
With its imposing 180m-high cliffs, and lurking about 5.5km into the morning sun from Aotea Great Barrier Island’s never-crowded Whangapoua Beach and Haratonga Walkway, it’s been likened by one blown-away traveller to Tintin’s Black Island.
From this viewpoint, Rakitu, or Arid Island, certainly looks
