Shoreline - First Episode

After about 10 minutes, it looks like Normandy on D-Day landing, you know: potholes, and shell craters and trench warfare.

– A man describes the state of the beach after numerous holes are dug to find toheroa

Everybody sort of works in together, as sort of a family, you know. There's never any bother, any troubles, or anything like that.

– The skipper of Te Aroha describes the ship's crew

They've all got really different characters — they're just like people.

– Marineland employee Carolyn feeds the penguins

Its digging implement is the large tongue, protruding between the shells.

– The narrator discusses the inner workings of the toheroa

Most of the ones that we get in are very sick. Birds that have been knocked by cars; they come in here, and this is the place they get put back to health, before they actually go out into the main bird area.

– A Marineland employee on nursing the birds back to health

Not only is this job the hardest working job in Marineland, I'm also the bravest, as you can see!

– Reg, Marineland's maintenance man, cleans the leopard seal enclosure as the seals look on