Travel: The magic of Kapiti Island
Rare birds and native forest make this New Zealand island famous, but even paradise can have a bloody and mythical past…
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Rare birds and native forest make this New Zealand island famous, but even paradise can have a bloody and mythical past…
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Read MoreI’m sitting in the pilot seat of a $2billion NASA plane, staring at the hundreds of flashing buttons in horror, Dr Chris’s words still hanging in the air. “Just don’t knock anything.” He’d said. Shit. Does he not know how clumsy I am?
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