Sarah and the pocket took the ferry over to Russell. A small little community where people go to rent sailboats. The ferries aren't quite as big as those in Puget Sound. Don't expect to go upstairs for a candy bar and cup of clam chowder. To be fair, the ride is about 600 meters long. Someone could make a killing with a toll bridge! The best part about Russel is not its museum of ethnocentrism. Where we were educated on how English whaling communities "expanded" the local Maori culture by taking them aboard as crew and paying them in muskets. This method of payment seemed to exacerbate the "already violent Maori who became exponentially more dangerous with their new payments." Needless to say the anthropologist in Sarah had a hard time swallowing this one. Imagine if you are Maori and still reading this bullshit in 2007!
