Just beyond the Kaikoura Peninsula lies a dramatic, 1200-metre deep canyon supplying nutrient-rich food to a bevy of hungry animals above and underwater. The always-playful Dusky Dolphins, New Zealand Fur Seals, and Red-Billed Gulls take advantage of this bounty at an especially important time of year. It’s breeding season, and thousands of Red-Billed Gulls form the largest colony in the South Island. Duskies mate, too, but for fun as well as reproduction. And a Fur Seal finds a magic place while his mother is out at sea.
Our Big Blue Backyard: Kaikoura shows the playful and perilous side of this neighborhood -- from rock pools to deep in the underwater canyon, to the Gull mothers who form an unlikely bond to protect their family unit.
Our Big Blue Backyard was produced by NHNZ with TVNZ and funded by NZ on Air Platinum fund.
8 сен 2015
