Looking at New Zealand - The Third Island

It’s unspeakably beautiful.

– A North American tourist

Wages are often higher than those of top business executives, but worries are few, and when the job’s done, more easily forgotten.

– The narration on the crayfish and cod industry

Oddly enough the tourists are returning to enjoy the very things that made the first settlers leave: isolation and unbroken country, that in the rest of New Zealand is increasingly hard to find.

– From the narration

The sea seems to be a dare: you have it on. It’s a nice free life. You can have bosses: bad weather you can have a holiday; fine weather and you work. And the harder you work the more money you get.

– Fisherman Max Skipper

The outsider’s frequent question of ‘What do you do down there?’ forgets that this is a way of life that accepts the natural resources of bush, sea and shore, where children can handle a dinghy as deftly as a bicycle.

– From the narration