Region code: All Zones.
Released: 2011. TV Standard: PAL. Rated: PG - Parental Guidance Recommended for Younger Viewers. Actors: Lush, Marcus.
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After exploring the wild south in his last television series, Lush has gone to the other extreme of the country for his travels, North.
From lighthouses to lava flows, kayaks to kiwis, beaches to butterflies, Marcus Lush covers a lot of ground – and water – in his latest adventure about New Zealand's special places and people.Lush decided to head up north for a while after discovering renewed passion for the region while spending more time in his hometown Auckland for work last year.
"As a visitor back up north, the stories have become much more interesting to me, more relevant and resonant," he says.
"The bottom of the South Island looks very different from the North, the cultures are different and the North has so much interesting history to explore, including plenty of lovely lighthouses and dramatic shipwrecks."
"There are the modern stories too, like the Mangere Bridge industrial dispute – the longest in New Zealand history – and, of course, the great harbour stories of the Manukau, Hokianga, Kaipara and Waitemata," says Lush.
This 10 episode series sees Marcus traverse the North Island from Auckland to the Far North and Cape Reinga, visiting the Islands of the Gulf, and telling the stories of the great harbours of the Manukau, Hokianga, Kaipara and the Waitemata. In many cases he will be taking the road less travelled, via sand-barge, cement ship, on horseback or small local fishing vessels.
He was also thrilled to visit off-shore locations like the Three Kings, the Cavallis and the islands of the Gulf, which have not been documented on television since Shirley Maddock's popular television series back in the 1960s.
To tell these stories Marcus sought out real grass-roots characters, real people of the land. This is a series where New Zealanders tell the tales of what's gone before, tell their own personal stories and share with the rest of the country their love and passion for the area they call home.
