Port Fitzroy Store is a dairy on Aotea Rd at the northern end of Great Barrier Island, serving the top of the Hauraki Gulf Islands, and it carries a solid 4.4 Google rating. A dairy is New Zealand's corner shop — milk, bread, cold drinks, ice creams and the odds and ends you forgot to pack — but out here it works more like a lifeline than a convenience. With shops few and far between on the island, dairies near the harbour are where boaties restock, trampers pick up supplies for the tracks around Hirakimata, and campers top up the chilly bin. Locals know to buy it when you see it, because stock arrives with the ferry and the weather, and to keep some cash handy where connections can be patchy. For crews anchored in Port Fitzroy or walkers heading up the island's northern roads, this is exactly the spot where a dairy earns its keep.