STUFF
We're deep in the Marlborough Sounds and it's the last place I thought I'd ever find a train carriage from the 1930s.
It’s a mail boat, so you expect bags of letters and packets, but the opened sack of sheep pellets? And the one of dog biscuits? They are a mystery – though not for long.
The Pelorus Mail Boat sets out three days a week from the little town of Havelock, to cruise through the Marlborough Sounds delivering not just post, but much more besides, to the people who live tucked away in the bays along this convoluted coastline, some of them so remote that they have no road access at all.