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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Eva Corlett in Stewart Island

‘We do just about everything’: the women running New Zealand’s ‘third island’

Crayfish is unloaded at Helen Cave's operation at the wharf in Horseshoe Bay on Rakiura/Stewart Island, New Zealand.
Crayfish is unloaded at Helen Cave's operation at the wharf in Horseshoe Bay on Rakiura/Stewart Island, New Zealand. Photograph: Derek Morrison/The Guardian

On a cloudy afternoon on New Zealand’s remote Stewart Island, Helen Cave is juggling multiple demands with aplomb: her latest haul of crayfish is due at the wharf, clients in China are phoning her about business and her grandson wants to take his new drone for a spin.

“I’ve always been a bit hyperactive,” she says, peering through her window overlooking Horseshoe Bay, where her cray boat is set to appear.

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