If you’ve read The Return of the Mullet Hunter, then you’ll remember that towards the end of my mullet-hunting adventures in New Zealand I visited Mullet Bay (right), near Invercargill at the south end of the South Island. I stayed in a hostel in the city, and when I left in the morning I realised…
This is the fourth in a series of extracts from my new book The Return of the Mullet Hunter, which I am posting over the the course of this week. This fourth extract describes one of my roadtrips through the South Island – a beautiful country that had more than a few echoes of Scotland. The…
This is the third in a series of extracts from my new book The Return of the Mullet Hunter, which I am posting over the the course of this week. This third extract describes my visit to Te Papa, New Zealand’s excellent national museum in Wellington, which at the time of my visit included an exhibition…
This is the second in a series of extracts from my new book The Return of the Mullet Hunter, which I am posting over the the course of this week. This second extract describes my visit to Motutapu Island, an uninhabited island off Auckland which was home to Mullet Bay, one of New Zealand’s five mullets.…