Great Barrier Island women

A very amusing article about Great Barrier Island:

Members of Auckland’s singles scene who are becoming frustrated with the so-called “man drought” may have an option on the horizon – there’s a shortage of women on Great Barrier Island. …

Although local builder Haz Got has already been snapped up, he said he had always noticed the shortage of women during his 20 or so years on the island.

“Particularly in winter – winter’s a real sad state of affairs for some of our red-blooded gentlemen residents.”

Mr Got admitted island men might be a bit fussy.

“We are picky about our women folk. There’s only certain women folk that will fit the bill,” he explained.

“You get your fancy ladies with their lipstick and their high heels and they come in here and wave their arses around and they think they’re in,” he joked, “But the boys aren’t interested.”

I’m a regular visitor to the Barrier and the locals are very down to earth. You have to be to live on an island with no central electricity supply!