episode description
In Banks Peninsula’s numerous bays, coves and lagoons which extend like a clenched fist into the Pacific Ocean, unique animals make their homes. The smallest and rarest dolphins on the planet prefer the shallow bays, while the unique white-flippered penguins scale near vertical cliffs every day to feed their chicks. It’s time for the wetland birds to produce this year’s offspring; pukeko activate their communal system of egg incubation and chick care while a pair of paradise ducks discover a safe nest which will require their brand new hatchlings to make a dangerous leap of faith. Through the rivers which flow from the mountains into the ocean around Banks Peninsula the extraordinary life cycle of New Zealand’s unique longfin eel will be revealed, as a tiny glass eel begins its journey, and a huge ancient female completes the last grueling phase of her life.
