Haututū Hunters: Survival in the Pacific Islands

Added: 2026-05-14

[00:00:01]The Venua of Aotearoa is vast and filled with wonder.

[00:00:07]And native species that have been extinct or forced to adapt due to introduced pests.

[00:00:14]None more fascinating than the City Slicker.

[00:00:29]Forced from their natural habitat into urban settings, these creatures are now largely reliant on others to sustain and nourish them.

[00:00:41]These guys, that's what we're supposed to look like.

[00:00:45]Cue the Top Gun music.

[00:00:47]Join us on our journey to introduce these fascinating creatures back into the wild.

[00:00:55]In an attempt to reunite them with what once was.

[00:00:58]What could be?

[00:00:59]Out the house That's it, that's it I'm on this journey to come back home, come back to my Tuhoe side of my whakapapa and I couldn't think of three more different but awesome mates to share this with.

[00:02:06]Home sweet home, Kazik.

[00:02:08]I'm excited because I'm a city boy, so to get out and about and see what they've got planned for us.

[00:02:14]Very excited.

[00:02:16]I'm a little bit nervous about what I'm in for, only because I asked for a plan and I got nothing.

[00:02:20]I got literally nothing.

[00:02:23]Wild tracks.

[00:02:24]Getting to be here with Te Kohe and Beulah and Jordan feels very special because it's like, it's our own time together that That's just going to be ours forever.

[00:02:38]We're in an element of space that we're unfamiliar in.

[00:02:41]Not very confident, and for us fellas we're usually used to being confident.

[00:02:47]Bro, your truck's flash is in there.

[00:02:48]Thing we flew in.

[00:02:49]Woo So we're in Whakatane, brother.

[00:02:52]What's the Māori name for it?

[00:02:57]Ah, Whakatane.

[00:02:58]It's pretty mean.

[00:02:58]I thought Whakatane was north of Auckland.

[00:03:01]So I was wrong.

[00:03:03]I asked TK, I was like... It's only not north.

[00:03:07]And he goes, no.

[00:03:07]I was like, oh, OK.

[00:03:08]I'm going to learn something every day.

[00:03:14]All right.

[00:03:15]Let's get it.

[00:03:15]Let's get it.

[00:03:16]So who are we going to go see, G?

[00:03:17]So we're going to go and visit the hunter-gatherer that's in my on my mum's side.

[00:03:24]So it's my Uncle Harold.

[00:03:26]He's the uncle that everybody goes to.

[00:03:28]So when I grew up, if I ever got in trouble, or if I was being.. Naure or anything like that my mum would send me to.

[00:03:36]All the time then?

[00:03:37]All the time.

[00:03:38]Coming back to my roots here is kind of twofold.

[00:03:43]I lived quite a gypsy upbringing.

[00:03:44]We never kind of settled in one place long enough for me to actually figure out who am I connected to here.

[00:03:51]And also coming back here is for me to fulfil something that I can see on my mum's face.

[00:03:57]It's been on her face for years, like when are you going to come home?

[00:04:01]when you're going to get to know everybody on the site.

[00:04:03]So this is part of that journey for me.

[00:04:06]Would you like to be here with me, brothers?

[00:04:08]Yeah.

[00:04:09]Me.

[00:04:10]Oh, Pablo Escobar.

[00:04:13]Pablo Escobar.

[00:04:20]Oh, there he is.

[00:04:22]Oh, he's a unit.

[00:04:23]Honest.

[00:04:25]I used to look that good in a splat.

[00:04:36]Give me more, mate.

[00:04:37]Xavier.

[00:04:43]Get on, Uncle Harold.

[00:04:45]Get on.

[00:04:45]Get on, Uncle.

[00:04:46]Jordan.

[00:04:47]First impressions meeting Uncle Harold?

[00:04:49]Almost broke my hand shaking his hand.

[00:04:51]There's nothing you can do with an uncle with a firm grip to it.

[00:04:55]Like, you're not supposed to meet that aggression and intensity.

[00:04:58]You just know it's happening and you just... Hi.

[00:05:02]Tikoie and his uncle are like twins.

[00:05:04]His uncle is just like a big, girthier, bulkier version of TK.

[00:05:08]Their mannerisms, like when they talk and they kind of, they're like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, talk like this.

[00:05:16]I was really nervous introducing the boys to Uncle Harold, because I didn't know how he was going to react.

[00:05:20]I could tell he was really nervous as well, because this is, Uncle's never been a part of anything like this before.

[00:05:29]So literally.

[00:05:30]We may be, some of us, dressed like we know what we're doing, but we've actually come to experience what it means to be a hunter-gatherer.

[00:05:38]You know, for me, you've always been that in our whānau.

[00:05:40]So thanks for having us, Uncle.

[00:05:42]So what are we going to do?

[00:05:44]What did you want to do?

[00:05:45]Oh, I hate that.

[00:05:46]That's what this is for.

[00:05:48]Well, I'm keen to go out on the boat.

[00:05:50]Keen to just getting amongst it, really.

[00:05:53]Enjoying it, seeing how you do it.

[00:05:55]All those secret spots that we're not supposed to tell anyone about.

[00:06:00]Told us we were probably going to go for a dive.

[00:06:02]Keen.

[00:06:02]I'm keen.

[00:06:03]I'm keen for anything on this trip.

[00:06:05]And I think the boys are keen, you know.

[00:06:07]We're all a little bit competitive and we're kind of like, we're a little bit alpha-ish.

[00:06:12]I've never gone diving for any like kina or pawa or anything.

[00:06:15]So I'm keen for that.

[00:06:18]Are we ready to move?

[00:06:19]Whatever you want to do, let's do it.

[00:06:22]Oh yeah.

[00:06:24]What's your philosophy on gathering kaiong?

[00:06:27]Oh it's just when the whānau are hungry, we just go and get it.

[00:06:32]Yeah.

[00:06:33]You can't go hungry around here.

[00:06:35]It's impossible.

[00:06:37]There's hope for us boys, there's hope for us.

[00:06:39]Like they say, when the tide is out the table is set.

[00:06:42]Oh yeah.

[00:06:43]Write that down, Biola.

[00:06:44]Write that down.

[00:06:45]I'm stealing their life.

[00:06:50]I know nothing about diving or fishing so I suppose I am worried about looking bad.

[00:06:58]but at the same time I'm like, ah, whatever.

[00:07:02]If we head out on the boat, what's the process, what's the plan?

[00:07:05]What are we going to do?

[00:07:06]We'll just go down, gear up, the owners of the boats got all the gear for you to put on.

[00:07:13]Do you want the real answer about diving?

[00:07:16]I'm actually not that keen because I think I have a bit of, I hate saying anxiety, it's a bit of a buzzword at the moment.

[00:07:23]I have a bit of a fear of the sea, especially like... Diving, because I haven't done it.

[00:07:31]So there's a few things we can do in between connecting this guy back to his roots.

[00:07:38]There are a few people I've talked to that actually want to help.

[00:07:41]There's stuff I didn't even know.

[00:07:44]I spoke to one of his uncles at the market yesterday, so we'll go from here to there.

[00:07:50]Get him out the wee.

[00:07:52]I'm really looking forward to meeting these members of our whānau.

[00:07:57]Putting some kōrero to the questions and the connections.

[00:08:03]Yeah.

[00:08:04]Me?

[00:08:05]It's so sweet.

[00:08:05]Yeah.

[00:08:06]Yeah, we're going to have a good time.

[00:08:09]I'm just worried about what we're going to have to do.

[00:08:12]Yeah, a little bit nervous, I suppose.

[00:08:14]Yeah, I'll be honest, I'm a little bit nervous.

[00:08:22]So, I didn't know this was going to happen, but Uncle Harold goes, there's a fellow who wants to meet you.

[00:08:27]He's your uncle.

[00:08:29]You might know him.

[00:08:30]And I'm like, that's not giving me much.

[00:08:45]Since when has that fella been my uncle?

[00:08:47]I'm still trying to figure out where's the connection.

[00:08:59]All of our people of Mangapoha, Te Uruwera, our people of Ngāti Rore, we all have our own places of descent.

[00:09:11]We have our own way.

[00:09:15]Te Mahuru Hure, Ngāti Rore, it's true, Te Mahuru Hure.

[00:09:20]We have our own kawaitana, Te Purewa.

[00:09:25]That's our ancestor, our great ancestor.

[00:09:28]It's time to hold on to our pride and our mana.

[00:09:40]We must remain true to our culture and our culture.

[00:09:51]We all know about the way the water is.

[00:09:57]You are a taahuna, you are a kohona.

[00:10:00]Te Uruwera, kai kioore, kai tangata pea, and other things.

[00:10:06]It's a good thing.

[00:10:06]That's what I think about what we're doing.

[00:10:08]What is it that we're doing?

[00:10:10]It's a good thing that we're doing.

[00:10:12]It's a good thing that we're doing.

[00:10:15]It's a good thing that we're doing.

[00:10:16]It's a good thing that we're doing.

[00:10:18]It's a good thing that we're doing.

[00:10:20]It's a good thing that we're doing.

[00:10:22]It's a good thing that we're doing.

[00:10:25]It's a good thing that we're doing.

[00:10:27]It's a good thing that we're doing.

[00:10:29]you I didn't even need to understand what was going on to know what was going on.

[00:10:45]It was one of those moments and I could see things were clicking off in Tika's head that he was just discovering.

[00:10:51]We said the show was kind of like each of us going on our own journeys and to see that world through Te Koi's eyes was pretty mean.

[00:10:58]That's the thing that most of us do when we're out.

[00:11:04]This is the way to stay connected to each other.

[00:11:10]There's a lot of negative things.

[00:11:12]All Maori are like that.

[00:11:14]We discuss it for a bit.

[00:11:16]I ask him how we are all connected.

[00:11:18]Me, I'm a girl.

[00:11:19]And he just starts, boom, And it really helped to kick everything off for me.

[00:11:23]Because as much as coming here to do the hunting side of things, For me it was more important to really begin those connections.

[00:11:36]The boat to take us out kind of fell through and so we had to pivot pretty quickly.

[00:11:41]Plan B was to take us out on a charter fishing boat.

[00:11:45]I'm not exactly jumping over the moon about that.

[00:11:47]I prefer diving to fishing but you know the gods weren't on our side.

[00:11:53]You look like you're a main fisherman so I have an expectation of many fish from you.

[00:12:00]Yeah when I found out we were going fishing, super stoked.

[00:12:02]It's actually something that I really love to do.

[00:12:04]I'm not actually that great at it, I don't get to go much so I'm stoked.

[00:12:09]I mean going out fishing, I'm keen like you know I love the water and always want to get out for fish so I'm actually looking forward to it.

[00:12:20]The marae here gets super seasick but... Are we going to be fine today?

[00:12:25]Not today baby, not today.

[00:12:28]Super confused hey, because I didn't know brown people got seasick.

[00:12:33]I was like, really?

[00:12:35]Definitely don't want to spew in front of them because I know it's like, you're going to get mocked for that for the rest of your life.

[00:12:43]I reckon I'm not going to vomit and I'm going to catch a quickie.

[00:12:49]A good niner.

[00:12:52]I don't know what the limit is.

[00:12:55]To be honest, all I cared about was seeing that man spew over the side.

[00:12:59]That's all I wanted to see, even if it was a little bit.

[00:13:04]A bit of a confession, brothers, I haven't actually been fishing before.

[00:13:08]On a boat or just ever?

[00:13:10]Just not really ever.

[00:13:12]LAUGHTER Yeah, yeah.

[00:13:17]I've never been fishing because no-one ever took me.

[00:13:20]Really, that's it?

[00:13:22]I've been on a few fishing charters.

[00:13:24]I'm not a big fan.

[00:13:25]Like, I don't like all the waiting around.

[00:13:28]I love the bro, but this ride is taking a long time just to get to where we need to get to.

[00:13:34]Oh Oh Oh, we won, buddy We won, buddy Yeah, boy We won, buddy We won, buddy Hey Hey Yeah Yeah Oh, that's a big one That's enough for today.

[00:13:57]Turn around.

[00:13:57]I haven't been fishing before.

[00:13:58]Yeah Best fish Best fish In one part, I felt, like, happy and excited because I had a fish, but at the same time, I, like, saw the hook in its mouth, and then I looked at Uncle, and he's like, and he's like that.

[00:14:05]I can't speak but I'm trying to take the hook out and like it looks like it's in pain but I don't know if they feel pain.

[00:14:12]Yeah I'm like feeling, started feeling bad.

[00:14:23]Once it's done I just, no special karakia to speed the process.

[00:14:37]Yee-hoo I want to catch two fish for every one they get, bro.

[00:14:40]Batter's on.

[00:14:41]Yeah, my little X He's a little one, but it's your thing.

[00:14:48]Kazi just asked if I wanted to pull his fish up, and I told him, I'm good, I'll catch my own fish.

[00:14:54]Because I, you know, I think I have that type of mana to do so.

[00:14:58]Kazi over here, with all the gear.

[00:15:01]Are you alright there bro?

[00:15:02]Look at him, look at him.

[00:15:06]Are you tangled up?

[00:15:07]No, no, no.

[00:15:08]Just assessing the line.

[00:15:10]So everything between me and the boys always turns into a competition.

[00:15:13]Always.

[00:15:13]And like, it's jokes but it's not jokes.

[00:15:18]But it's the banter I think that keeps us nice and close.

[00:15:22]And I love that about us.

[00:15:24]First keeper lads, first keeper right here.

[00:15:27]Just letting you know.

[00:15:28]She's a bit quiet down here.

[00:15:29]Have you pulled up anything?

[00:15:36]X?

[00:15:37]Any?

[00:15:38]Any for you?

[00:15:39]Yeah, just a small one.

[00:15:43]My swap ends.

[00:15:45]You suck.

[00:15:47]I was like, oh, maybe I'm getting the bad vibes from TK here.

[00:15:51]So I make a pivot to the winning side.

[00:15:54]Hey, hey.

[00:15:55]Hey, all three of us got this.

[00:15:57]Hey That's my fish, cuz.

[00:16:03]So there's lightsabers.

[00:16:05]If you don't mock someone, you're not really boys with me.

[00:16:07]I think that's how it is, eh?

[00:16:09]Oh, another nice one, eh?

[00:16:10]It's because you took my spot for you.

[00:16:12]Woo Oh, we're home, baby.

[00:16:16]Nice.

[00:16:17]I think I'll spot all of you.

[00:16:18]Keep trying, brothers.

[00:16:20]Come bring your line over here, P.

[00:16:22]Oh, oh, you got one.

[00:16:25]Oh, nice, yes.

[00:16:26]I'm not good with measurements, but... Got a good one Nick.

[00:16:29]So I start to pull something up and it feels really big.

[00:16:32]I need someone else to come and give me a hand with this.

[00:16:34]Get the net, get the net.

[00:16:37]I got the net.

[00:16:39]I got the net.

[00:16:40]Cuss.

[00:16:40]Cuss.

[00:16:40]Oh, oh you got one.

[00:16:41]Oh nice, yes.

[00:16:44]So I start to pull something up and it feels really big.

[00:16:47]I need someone else to come and give me a hand with this.

[00:16:49]Got a good one Nick.

[00:16:50]We think we've got the big one.

[00:16:52]I'm just trying to help axle up, you know, bloody Maui.

[00:16:54]Get the net, get the net.

[00:16:55]I got the net.

[00:16:56]I think this is day one, George.

[00:16:58]Let's go, X.

[00:17:05]Get that bloody net, eh?

[00:17:06]Get that net and put it back.

[00:17:07]Is this not okay, whānau?

[00:17:10]Nah, yeah, definitely keep it, bro.

[00:17:13]But not net-worthy.

[00:17:13]Hey, now you're net-worthy.

[00:17:18]I'm still on that one side.

[00:17:20]I must have pulled up like three fish.

[00:17:21]All of them, like, you couldn't even call them a fish, really.

[00:17:29]And then I got my only fish, and then I was done.

[00:17:34]I was over it.

[00:17:36]We were about to wrap it up.

[00:17:37]Everyone was calling it in.

[00:17:39]TK was a little bit... X was out.

[00:17:42]The boss said, we're done, and I said, one more, one more.

[00:17:45]I looked at Uncle Harold, and he goes, big bait, big fish.

[00:17:54]Here's the net.

[00:17:55]Oh yeah, yeah, where's the net?

[00:18:04]Here it be, hola.

[00:18:05]Oh, B, you might have it.

[00:18:05]Yeah, I think it's a good one.

[00:18:07]Grab the net, man.

[00:18:07]Now you're a nitwit.

[00:18:08]Grab the net, man.

[00:18:08]Oh When the tide is up, the table is set.

[00:18:10]Let's go.

[00:18:10]Let's go Yeah Yeah Look at that Look at that Look at that Wow Unreal.

[00:18:27]Yeah Yeah, baby Beautiful Step short, baby.

[00:18:33]All in all, I think I win Alpha of the Week.

[00:18:36]Terence Pugh caught the biggest fish.

[00:18:39]Had the best laughs with my brothers and now we're gonna have a mean feed and eat my big snapper.

[00:18:46]Well gentlemen, woo successful.

[00:18:49]We got there.

[00:18:50]The Hoututu hunters managed to pull off a successful fishing trip.

[00:18:55]Yes.

[00:18:55]I'm gonna have to be honest though, Bula, number one fisherman today.

[00:19:01]Thank you sir, I'll take that.

[00:19:04]I feel like when I put my rod back, As my last fish, that was an assist there by the way.

[00:19:11]Yeah, and I thank you for that, Elliot.

[00:19:12]You came to my spot.

[00:19:13]Yeah.

[00:19:14]We made it work.

[00:19:16]In terms of the fish that we all caught today, my contribution, very happy.

[00:19:20]I might not have got the biggest fish, but I feel like I fed the most fun.

[00:19:23]So like Uncle said, when the tide's up, the table's set, I put Kai on the table today.

[00:19:28]I keep catching bait.

[00:19:29]We need to get our heads around the measurement on these fish.

[00:19:32]We're always super proud of everything we pull back, but Uncle was always like... Nah, yeah, yeah.

[00:19:38]All right, we caught about 10 kingies today.

[00:19:40]We're all undersized.

[00:19:43]Come on now.

[00:19:44]You know, at the end of the day, winners win.

[00:19:47]And who's over here won on the day, so we good.

[00:19:52]We all got snapper.

[00:19:53]That was all snapper, eh?

[00:19:54]Yeah, all snapper.

[00:19:55]A couple of snapper fish.

[00:19:57]Yo, she, yo, she's cause what's up?

[00:20:00]What are you foreseeing?

[00:20:01]Well I'm thinking we maybe do a... Like a snapper brunchy.

[00:20:05]Woohoo I'm thinking maybe some straight easy fillets.

[00:20:12]Snapper fillets, couple of eggs.

[00:20:13]Yes.

[00:20:15]Some lazy chips in there somewhere.

[00:20:16]Oh I think.

[00:20:19]Really easy, we don't have to muck around with it too much.

[00:20:21]But seasoned flour on the skin side to get nice and crispy.

[00:20:25]Oh The flesh side.

[00:20:26]That's a great set.

[00:20:27]And then, yeah.

[00:20:29]Shallow fry?

[00:20:30]Yeah, yeah.

[00:20:32]Bunch of this, eh?

[00:20:32]Yeah, bunch of this, I think.

[00:20:55]Bunch of this.

[00:20:55]Yeah, Uncle, I just wanted to thank you for having us.

[00:20:58]Putting up with us city slickers, just you know laughing under your breath not like openly at us.

[00:21:04]It's just been mean just to be here and share my connection with you with my mates and the whānau, having all the kazi's and being here at your whare.

[00:21:14]So leave the talk there, but if you have a big message for all of us, then we'll pray and that's it.

[00:21:21]We're ready for the feast.

[00:21:22]Welcome to Whakatipo Anuku, Whakatipo Arangi.

[00:21:25]Welcome to Te Ao Mārama.

[00:21:27]Welcome to our home.

[00:21:28]We are home.

[00:21:29]Because it's with you boys and the thing is, it's not about us getting something.

[00:21:39]I feel pretty privileged right now to have come down here this weekend and gone through this and now going home.

[00:21:46]Like, I don't know, I just feel like gifted, really.

[00:21:49]It'll be super quiet around here.

[00:21:55]We'll be back.

[00:21:55]I know where you live.

[00:21:58]Learning where Whakatane actually is on the map and learning about the place and learning about my bro's family that he didn't really know, those are special and he set the bar pretty high for all of us.

[00:22:12]Being in Whakatane the last two days, especially being with Te Kōhi's whānau, meeting his uncle and his nephews has been awesome.

[00:22:19]Just the way they've looked after us, filled with so much aroha, and it's been awesome.

[00:22:24]So these past few days I spent here, it's just been awesome.

[00:22:28]I'm just like, I couldn't think of a better way to connect my mates with my family, but also allow myself to be connected to my family as well.

[00:22:36]Yeah, kō ki te whatū manawa.

[00:22:37]I really feel like I'm full right now, full of the experiences, full of the connections, and just happy.

[00:22:48]I'm just stoked.

[00:22:49]I'm just actually stoked.

[00:22:50]I can't wait for Uncle to see this actually.

[00:22:52]You know, this is for me another stepping stone towards making those connections with everyone back here.

[00:23:00]Itikanga.

[00:23:01]Yeah, and just making Mum happy.

[00:23:04]Myself happy too, because it's these places that I'll bring my kids back to.

[00:23:08]Drop them off and then go.

[00:23:23]Excited to see you brothers again.

[00:23:24]Thank you.

[00:23:25]Yes boys.

[00:23:26]What are we up to?

[00:23:28]Just going to go see my cousin Britton and then we're going to head over to our final island, Mou Titi.

[00:23:33]How are we getting there?

[00:23:35]A little plain, like a little.

[00:23:38]Wow, flying can is it?

[00:23:42]Have you heard of Mou Titi before?

[00:23:44]A little bit.

[00:23:45]Heard of it but I've never been.

[00:23:46]I've never been too, so it's going to be our first.

[00:23:49]We're going to share together, which is going to be very, very special.

[00:23:53]That's where you're from?

[00:23:54]Yeah.

[00:23:54]Just from my young age, I've always known Maltiti as home.

[00:23:57]But being an urban South Auckland Māori boy, my nanny taught me, you know, you're Māori, you're Te Patuai.

[00:24:03]And you just grow up knowing that, but never been before, so it's been a massive bucket list for me.

[00:24:08]And, yeah, to have the boys here, it's, like, super special.

[00:24:11]Have you done before?

[00:24:11]Boys?

[00:24:11]Yeah.

[00:24:15]I've done a little bit of my time.

[00:24:16]Oh yeah?

[00:24:17]Little bit.

[00:24:18]Little bit.

[00:24:19]It's been ages since I've dived, so I'm looking forward to getting into the water, but you know, I got a bit of a, bit of a cold.

[00:24:27]So I might not be able to hold my breath for that long.

[00:24:32]George?

[00:24:33]Nah, just stage dive when I swim.

[00:24:38]Not at all, brother.

[00:24:40]I can barely swim.

[00:24:43]Yeah, let's just break that law and... Yeah, apparently there's this massive stingray that's like a kaitake there that's just always there.

[00:24:49]If I see that, I'm out.

[00:24:54]Back on the shore.

[00:24:55]I don't worry about that.

[00:24:58]If I see a shark, someone's getting a hiding.

[00:25:03]You know they keep talking about stingrays.

[00:25:06]I'd already told myself if I see a stingray I'm out.

[00:25:09]I don't care about what we're shooting today, I'm out.

[00:25:11]I'm out of there.

[00:25:12]Don't worry about that.

[00:25:13]I know I'm that kind of guy there.

[00:25:15]If the stingray is gonna hurt someone that day, it's me.

[00:25:18]Are you nervous going over?

[00:25:21]Nah, I'm not actually.

[00:25:23]I'm nervous about that.

[00:25:25]Being from there, not catching anything.

[00:25:28]Ah, no, I'm not.

[00:25:29]It's just, you know, one of those things that I always knew.

[00:25:31]I'm Te Potuai.

[00:25:33]I know I'm from there.

[00:25:34]Rap it hard, but never been there.

[00:25:36]So, but no, one day I'll get there, you know.

[00:25:38]So today's the day.

[00:25:39]Oh, man.

[00:25:40]So, yeah, it's going to be very special, brother.

[00:25:42]It's very grateful to have you here too.

[00:25:44]My brother's here.

[00:25:53]To reconnect with Britain, it's super special.

[00:25:55]The Williams whānau, his whānau, they're the ahikā of our hapū.

[00:25:58]So it's special in that sense because I haven't seen them for a while.

[00:26:05]Yeah, haere rā.

[00:26:06]I hope yous are ready today.

[00:26:07]We're going off to Mōtiti Island today, brothers.

[00:26:10]Eh?

[00:26:11]On that mode of transport.

[00:26:12]Ooh.

[00:26:13]Well, good question.

[00:26:15]Is there a weight limit on our waka?

[00:26:19]Just, um... I'm pretty sure we'll get there in one piece.

[00:26:22]Well, luckily we're all on a six-week challenge.

[00:26:28]So we arrive at the hangar and we meet Cousin Britton, smooth operator.

[00:26:32]So I'm interested to see where the cousin's going to take us.

[00:26:37]Assuming we're going to get in the morning and go for a dive, Cous?

[00:26:39]Yeah, we've got a couple of good posies for us today, brothers.

[00:26:44]Local names, Stingray Bay, Shark Alley.

[00:26:49]Just for you, my bro.

[00:26:51]Octopal suckers.

[00:26:55]Guys.

[00:26:56]Thank you.

[00:26:56]I've never freed dove before, something I'm very scared of, but I'm excited to do.

[00:27:00]And I just want to do the kinna thing where you go like this to the sack.

[00:27:04]And make sure they're all off-size.

[00:27:07]So, but on a serious note, like, how deep are we talking about?

[00:27:10]We're not.

[00:27:10]Nah.

[00:27:10]Because we all got like breath-hold records of like two seconds, so.

[00:27:14]Yeah, well, if all else fails, we've got another posse where we take all our Koanga Reo kids to as well.

[00:27:20]That's us.

[00:27:22]We were talking to Britton about coming to Motiti Island and having a little dive in that.

[00:27:28]And so I'm fine.

[00:27:29]I don't know.

[00:27:30]I can just swim at the top, you know.

[00:27:31]I don't need to be going out and doing what all they're doing.

[00:27:34]I'm just going to see.

[00:27:35]He said there's a few stingrays.

[00:27:36]I'm not going near those.

[00:27:37]Is that us?

[00:27:56]When I stepped on the plane there was a steering wheel in front of me so I was thinking if you go down am I doing this?

[00:28:06]The plane ride was pretty awesome man.

[00:28:08]But yeah it was a tiny ass tiny ass plane that looked like a car and it goes up in the air I was like this thing work?

[00:28:14]It smells like it smells like 1967.

[00:28:20]The flight was little.

[00:28:21]Pretty buzzy though, just like, you know, you just take off out of this little city and for a little while you're just cruising and you come into this island.

[00:28:35]The flight over was actually pretty beautiful.

[00:28:37]The sticky part was leaving the nice pristine runway in Tauranga and seeing the nice pristine runway here on Motiti.

[00:28:52]Woah, when we were coming in on that thing I was like, that don't look too smooth.

[00:28:56]But it worked out.

[00:28:58]We landed.

[00:29:04]Cozy, cue the Top Gun music.

[00:29:09]Oh, we made a beat.

[00:29:11]We made it, guys.

[00:29:13]Feels like a different planet, eh?

[00:29:15]Just flying in a tiny-ass plane that looks like a like a Hōran Komaro landing on a paddock.

[00:29:22]See Uncle Harold?

[00:29:25]What's the saying?

[00:29:28]When the tide is out, the table is set.

[00:29:33]Lo and behold, when we get here, the usual suspect, my Uncle Harold, eh?

[00:29:37]I'm sure he's following us around.

[00:29:39]I'm pretty sure he is.

[00:29:41]Yeah, we didn't even know you were coming.

[00:29:42]You've been here for a couple of days.

[00:29:44]Yeah?

[00:29:44]Gotta give her life jacket back, oofs.

[00:29:46]Oh, yeah.

[00:29:51]Hey, Robert.

[00:29:52]This fella said you would be.

[00:29:53]Why are you not going skiing, brother?

[00:30:04]That was me.

[00:30:06]That was me, me.

[00:30:08]That was the smallest plane I've ever been on.

[00:30:10]Definitely putting on your own life jacket and you stood under the seat.

[00:30:14]But it was actually quite beautiful.

[00:30:16]Really beautiful.

[00:30:21]Uncle, uncle.

[00:30:22]Yeah.

[00:30:22]Couldn't miss those guns.

[00:30:26]Uncle, uncle.

[00:30:30]Good to see you, Uncle.

[00:30:32]Wow, that was mean to see Uncle Harold.

[00:30:35]How cool is that, eh?

[00:30:36]We just meet and hang out with him once and then see him, and it's just like, that's our uncle.

[00:30:40]So here we are, brothers.

[00:30:43]Told you we were right.

[00:30:44]Yeah, yeah.

[00:30:44]Safely.

[00:30:45]That was an experience.

[00:30:46]Hey.

[00:30:48]I hope you fellas brought your fellas' passports, but yeah, no way, how do I... Oh, yeah, we're just waiting for customs to open.

[00:30:55]This is all foreign to me.

[00:30:56]It's like, this is the airport, right here.

[00:31:00]All these people.

[00:31:01]That lady over there is apparently customs, you know?

[00:31:04]There's a little tower box, I guess that's the tower for the airport, but it's pretty mean.

[00:31:09]See you guys.

[00:31:10]See you again, mate.

[00:31:11]Don't tell mum you saw me, Because then you'll go, You see your uncle more than you see me See ya So awesome to be here.

[00:31:27]I never would have come here.

[00:31:28]Actually didn't really know this was an island so I'm looking forward to getting amongst it.

[00:31:36]Being here on Motiti, first time for me, but I'm stoked to be here for X on his funeral.

[00:31:42]I'm pretty excited to be here with my boys.

[00:31:44]Just cruising to our beach.

[00:31:46]First time ever for myself and to have them here with me, I feel very supported but at the same time I feel this is special really.

[00:31:56]Hey there That'll be a moment for me that I'll always remember of this trip.

[00:32:07]Five all the way out there.

[00:32:15]Well brothers, nē mai hara mate.

[00:32:16]Welcome to Wairaraki.

[00:32:18]This is one of our taonga here at the island and one that we fiercely appreciate.

[00:32:22]protect.

[00:32:24]As you can see the rock just in front of the kids there, her name is Muritai.

[00:32:28]A story about Muritai is that any newbies that come to Motiti, I kid you not when I say that if you jump onto that rock it starts to rain and you get stuck here for a minute.

[00:32:37]at least a couple of days.

[00:32:38]I've actually seen it happen, so I'm a true blue believer.

[00:32:42]As you can see in front of us, it's not the best conditions, but still safe as.

[00:32:48]That's the beauty about Wairaraki, is that we bring our pepes and our kōhanga reo here to come learn how to dive as well, so yous will be safe here.

[00:32:59]Hope for us, there's hope for us.

[00:33:01]I'm just excited to see what this island has to offer, because I feel like no one really dives it, you right?

[00:33:07]Sorry.

[00:33:07]so there should be a lot of things to see.

[00:33:10]The equipment we're going to be using is your mask and your snorkel.

[00:33:14]When we get into the water, just spit into your mask, give it a bit of a wipe and then wash it with the moana.

[00:33:22]Shark Alley is that way.

[00:33:24]Around that way is Stingray Bay.

[00:33:27]I think he's more trying to scare Jordan, if anyone, with the stingray and the sharks, because I love a good shark dive.

[00:33:34]But other than that, if we're ready, any pātai?

[00:33:39]We'll get into it.

[00:33:44]All right.

[00:33:44]See?

[00:33:45]Let's go.

[00:33:45]Woo Going for a dive today, I feel pretty nervous, I'd say, because I'm from here, but I've never dived before, and we have to provide.

[00:33:53]And as Uncle Harold said in the last one, it's impossible to go hungry here, so if we don't provide anything, we're useless.

[00:34:03]I think these other guys are kind of lying.

[00:34:04]They have been for dives before.

[00:34:06]They just don't want to be seen as divers.

[00:34:08]You know, undersell and overdeliver.

[00:34:10]But I really have never been for a dive ever.

[00:34:15]Definitely my heart was racing.

[00:34:17]Because you don't want to drown and be that guy that everyone has to save.

[00:34:21]You become that guy.

[00:34:26]Yeah, pretty pumped going into the water.

[00:34:28]Nervous because usually when I go diving, I go diving with scuba tanks.

[00:34:32]This is the first time I had to rely on my own scuba tank.

[00:34:58]So I got on the water and... I was just number one stoked to be swimming in Maimoana.

[00:35:04]I was amazed at how clear it looked underneath and it was quite pretty.

[00:35:10]I don't know what the heck I'm doing really, but it didn't take too long and I started seeing quite a few kinders underneath and I was like, oh that's pretty much it, just get a breath and go down and pop it off and grab it.

[00:35:20]So I started doing that, getting a bit of a rhythm going.

[00:35:41]They look bigger underwater than when I came out of the water and I started to feel bad.

[00:35:47]You know, I'm just not sure of the sizing and stuff, but yeah, I started to get a bit of a pattern of consistent small kinners.

[00:36:05]What we started was nice because it's almost like reef out there.

[00:36:09]You can see parts where it's quite shallow and then you swim five more metres and it kind of opens and then you're like, okay, is there going to be a shark there?

[00:36:18]But once I kind of started swimming, it's actually really calm.

[00:36:22]So the nerves kind of relaxed after I kind of got in there, but definitely my heart was racing.

[00:36:28]Thank you.

[00:36:41]We have a Kora Kira before.

[00:36:42]First day, let's do it.

[00:36:42]We see Panekinas in the shop and all that, but I never thought, like, what do they look like in the ocean, you know?

[00:36:46]So they're kind of like in these little, like, pockets, kind of sitting there.

[00:36:50]If you actually look and concentrate, they're everywhere.

[00:36:53]So once I realised that they were sort of reachable, I was like, OK.

[00:37:00]My first attempt going down and trying to pull it up but then I was running out of breath so I had to go back up.

[00:37:07]Reset and I was like, come on.

[00:37:08]Went back down again.

[00:37:09]Let's go That's my first get up, eh?

[00:37:30]That's my first get up, eh?

[00:37:31]Woohoo Yeah, off to Maltiti Island today, brothers.

[00:37:32]On that mode of transport.

[00:37:34]Ooh.

[00:37:35]Just flying in a tiny-ass plane that looks like a Holden Komaro landing on a paddock.

[00:37:40]Oh, we made it, B.

[00:37:41]I hope you fellas brought your fellas' passports, but yeah, no mai hara mai.

[00:37:45]Oh, yeah, we're just waiting for customs to open.

[00:37:47]Just cruising to our beach.

[00:37:49]I'm pretty excited to be here with my boys.

[00:37:52]You know they keep talking about stingrays.

[00:37:54]I'd already told myself if I see a stingray I'm out.

[00:37:57]Going for a dive today I feel pretty nervous I'd say because I've never dived before and we have to provide.

[00:38:12]My first kid up eh?

[00:38:13]My first kid up I feel very privileged to actually even be on this island because you have to be invited into this island from someone from this island.

[00:38:50]This is those things white people pay like hundreds of thousands of dollars to do, you know?

[00:38:54]So I get to just do it with my family.

[00:39:01]We're just on the other side of this rock.

[00:39:03]Yep.

[00:39:05]And there used to be, um, what we called the, the refrigerator up island.

[00:39:11]Oh, aye.

[00:39:11]Yeah.

[00:39:11]There used to be deep and heaps of crayfish, and that's where we'd always come to get crayfish to take pictures of.

[00:39:17]Come on.

[00:39:21]We're going to look.

[00:39:23]All right.

[00:39:24]A bro took us out to the spot where there's some crayfish.

[00:39:25]He calls it the refrigerator.

[00:39:27]And it looks pretty deep, and, um, He goes and shows us and he disappears and I'm like, I don't think I can make it down that far.

[00:39:35]The way I came up, a couple of little crazy, and we're going to have a little bit of a keep going.

[00:39:43]You just go to the bottom, and you just follow your way up.

[00:39:46]And you've got the first three, which you just follow up.

[00:39:50]And then sort of halfway up, there'll be a little bit of a thing to see the engine.

[00:39:56]And then come back again.

[00:39:59]Britson had gone.

[00:40:00]I went down and seen the Krays and told us exactly where they were.

[00:40:04]The first time I went down, man, my ears were going to pop.

[00:40:07]And then he just told me, no, just get back down.

[00:40:09]And if you feel the pressure, just blow your ears, which I did, which helped.

[00:40:13]But man, I couldn't hold my breath for that long.

[00:40:16]I was like boosting to get back up.

[00:40:19]Same as B2, yeah.

[00:40:21]So we tried.

[00:40:26]Well, I was telling Xavier today.

[00:40:28]Like when we're in the ocean, I was like, bro, it's mean just to be a part of.

[00:40:32]Witnessing him experience, coming back to a place that he knew he was from but never visited, and to see my brother go through that and to be here, you know, is awesome.

[00:40:45]And, you know, that's just special.

[00:41:18]We didn't get any crayfish or power but still feeling pretty stoked.

[00:41:22]It's our first time doing this so I think coming out with a sack full of kinners and just getting in the water.

[00:41:28]Hammond Lagoon was a bit of a win for us boys here.

[00:41:35]Once I got out, I was just kind of quietly stoked.

[00:41:38]I had quite a big fear about diving, that I was trying to hide and I could feel like the crew was trying to push me.

[00:41:46]And so, yeah, it isn't as bad as I thought, nowhere near as bad as I thought, and would I do it again?

[00:41:50]100%.

[00:42:00]Oh yes What a day Hey mate.

[00:42:09]Tell you what, lads how good was that?

[00:42:12]I don't know, you tell us Jordan, it was your first dive.

[00:42:15]Well you know I was just actually thinking that, you know all you guys being all humble, we haven't dived before.

[00:42:21]You know, I'm really the one who debuted today and it was actually blooming special eh.

[00:42:26]I really loved today.

[00:42:29]Nah, it's pretty special.

[00:42:30]Ming, thanks X. The island is beautiful bro.

[00:42:34]Ming Wairua and especially at Wairanaki.

[00:42:37]Down at the beach it was... At the Kohanga.

[00:42:38]At the Kohanga, paddling pool, boys.

[00:42:40]I didn't realise how exclusive it was, you know.

[00:42:42]So, it actually felt mean bro.

[00:42:46]I don't know if we'll ever have the privilege of coming back here again.

[00:42:49]More Titi Island.

[00:42:50]Yeah, to have this experience here today is something that I'll remember forever.

[00:42:54]Yeah, it's awesome.

[00:42:57]How'd you find it X?

[00:42:58]Yeah, we've got to go back another time.

[00:42:59]Very special, you know, brothers, to go there for my first time and to have you with me and to not be the only one who can't dive.

[00:43:09]We all contributed to that kind of fucking thing.

[00:43:11]Yeah, brother.

[00:43:12]So where are we off to now?

[00:43:13]We're going to go see Koropahu.

[00:43:16]He's like our beacon of our hapu.

[00:43:18]He's our apotoro.

[00:43:20]He's a special man, so I'm looking forward to meeting him and let him just settle our journey for the day.

[00:43:26]And you know, just those who can't get to the island, we'll go and we'll provide for them.

[00:43:32]How good.

[00:43:33]Yeah, have a kai, have a kai.

[00:43:36]Because I am hungry.

[00:43:58]I'm going to go and get my wife.

[00:44:04]I'm going to go and get my wife.

[00:44:07]I'm going to go and get my wife.

[00:44:09]I'm going to go and get my wife.

[00:44:11]I'm going to go and get my wife.

[00:44:12]I'm going to go and get my wife.

[00:44:15]Tēnā reata, tūku whakakotiranga kā whakamoimi, tūku ngā whakata i ngā kōrō, i tāngi a koutou i manaakene, i tēkene i a mātou i roto hoki, i ngā nekarekatanga, ngā ahuatanga nā hoki, i pā mai nā ki a mātou i takatū nei runga i te Matata Whenua.

[00:44:28]Nē rā mātou ko tutaki tēnei ahe, ko horauhia ngā kai ki mana hoki o mātou aroro, hei whāngaina hoki o mātou tinana, whāngaina toni hei hoki o mātou wairui, tālo te ora o mātou māngai tautoko mai, a hēnei ākenei.

[00:44:41]Kia ora tātou.

[00:44:51]I walk away having found a new, another home, you know, because what uncle and the cousin says, like, come back whenever you want.

[00:45:03]It's me, I'm there for the first time.

[00:45:05]X got to experience coming back to his home.

[00:45:09]Yeah, that's winning.

[00:45:14]To be honest, today's been one of the most special days in my life really, just because this has been a real bucket list for me to come to Mōtiti.

[00:45:22]It's part of my journey in my life and to have come here today with my brothers, who I care and love a lot, just kind of felt like... It was meant to be, really.

[00:45:39]Here we go, boys.

[00:45:40]Welcome to Kākahi.

[00:45:42]This is where my wife's family's from.

[00:45:44]It's where my kids are from.

[00:45:45]And we're going to hang out with my father-in-law for a bit.

[00:45:49]He's my best man.

[00:45:52]With the boys out here at Kākahi, because this is where my wife's Māori side is from, where her father's from, so... I thought I would bring out my father-in-law and hang out with the boys and we'll go for a hunt.

[00:46:05]But I tricked him.

[00:46:07]I just want to get to know my father more.

[00:46:09]And with that, my sons can know who he is more and know who they are.

[00:46:15]And what are we up to?

[00:46:15]Are we going for a hunt or something?

[00:46:16]Yeah, we're going to go for a hunt.

[00:46:17]I think, I don't know, I really don't know what we're doing.

[00:46:19]Dad usually, he tells me these great stories about he'd go out here with the bush and with his boys and go deer hunting.

[00:46:26]I remember him taking me out there one time and... Telling me about his mom and dad and that's what I was super interested in.

[00:46:32]I pretty much know nothing but I just like now I'm forcing him to go tell me and I'm gonna learn it with you guys.

[00:46:40]Sometimes a father needs a new energy.

[00:46:43]Yeah, I appreciate it.

[00:46:45]So yeah, let's get out there and do it boys.

[00:47:00]Hey dude.

[00:47:00]Oh welcome, welcome.

[00:47:03]Welcome to my little hideaway.

[00:47:04]There's X, there's TK, oh you know the boys.

[00:47:09]This is Jordan.

[00:47:16]Oh welcome boys.

[00:47:18]Welcome to Kaka Hii eh?

[00:47:20]Yeah.

[00:47:21]Hang on a minute.

[00:47:22]Kaka Hii.

[00:47:22]It's pretty small.

[00:47:24]Another small village but this is basically where... I grew up down here.

[00:47:31]Remote.

[00:47:31]It was remote.

[00:47:33]Yeah, we were definitely out of our comfort zone.

[00:47:36]I'm going to be honest, I got the heebie-jeebies when we got there.

[00:47:40]Anything that moved, I would look and I'm like, wow.

[00:47:43]And then X noticed the piwaka waka hooning around and I was just like, wow, what's going on?

[00:47:50]So let's go for a tikki tour, if you like?

[00:47:52]Yeah, what are we going to get up to, Dad?

[00:47:53]Let's make our way down the river, because a lot of us when we were young, we spent a lot of time down in the rivers anyway, fishing.

[00:47:59]Ealing, hunting, gathering clay.

[00:48:03]We have to go down to see Manu Lale.

[00:48:04]He was sort of like dubbed the mayor of Kākehi.

[00:48:06]Oh wow.

[00:48:07]What does he do?

[00:48:09]What is it?

[00:48:09]He runs the local dairy.

[00:48:11]The dairy?

[00:48:12]Yeah.

[00:48:13]His family's been here for generations, so.

[00:48:15]An Indian man who's been here for a very long time.

[00:48:18]He's embedded into this community.

[00:48:20]Awesome.

[00:48:21]He might even give you a rundown on the history of Kākehi.

[00:48:23]Sweet.

[00:48:24]He's got it all.

[00:48:25]He's got the loli, he's got the power, eh?

[00:48:26]Oh.

[00:48:29]This is my first time meeting Uncle Terence.

[00:48:32]Lovely, lovely, beautiful man.

[00:48:34]Very, um... He was kind of painting him like staunch, but I just think he's a beautiful fellow, Uncle Terence.

[00:48:41]Alright then, shall we go then?

[00:48:43]Let's do it.

[00:48:44]Alright.

[00:48:46]Jump in, Dad.

[00:48:47]Alina.

[00:48:47]In the front.

[00:48:49]Check the expiry date on those lollies, eh?

[00:48:53]Alright, Dad, so you're gonna show us around Kaka here?

[00:48:56]Used to be quite a hive around here at one time.

[00:48:58]with a lot of timber mills, several dotted around the area.

[00:49:04]So at one time there was about 3,000 residents here.

[00:49:08]Oh, wow.

[00:49:11]I'll tell you what, they ain't here today.

[00:49:13]Definitely not here today.

[00:49:15]I mean, it's a little town, not much people, but I'm just happy to be here for B.

[00:49:21]He's just like, I want to know where my kid's whānau's from.

[00:49:24]So, you know, he's just pressing on it.

[00:49:27]I brought you back to a place that you haven't come back a lot either.

[00:49:31]I remember you bringing me one time years ago when I first went out with your daughter.

[00:49:38]I actually bring you out here.

[00:49:39]Yeah, he brought me out here to murder me.

[00:49:42]I mean, it's a pretty good place.

[00:49:43]And I know I'll find you here.

[00:49:44]Yeah, you can find anyone here.

[00:49:48]We arrived and my job here was to support Bea and be a part of that.

[00:49:53]To warm her soul, maybe.

[00:49:57]Yeah, but yeah, Kaka he's got some ma.

[00:50:00]It's not something you'd be cheap to say that much.

[00:50:04]It's where the locals gather, it's where they gather their supplies, it's the only one in the area.

[00:50:09]Yeah, so this is the countdown of this little town here.

[00:50:12]The countdown of Kākehi, run by a very nice man who's been here for a very long time.

[00:50:27]Is this his house here?

[00:50:32]I think when we got out of the car, a few of the boys felt a little bit like the hills were watching.

[00:50:39]Kākehi General Store and Post Office.

[00:50:44]I think Jordan noticed how quiet I was and like how on edge, because there were all these little tohu and my mauri meter was going, there's something not quite right about this place.

[00:51:02]So, Dayalawa is the father of Mun.

[00:51:13]Lucky.

[00:51:14]They used to have a store up there.

[00:51:20]Oh, yeah, the store, right?

[00:51:22]Is this his house here?

[00:51:22]When we got there, I was just like, come on, boys, we, something's going on here.

[00:51:26]Kakahi General Store and Post Office.

[00:51:32]It's looking a bit closed in there boys.

[00:51:35]Oh well.

[00:51:36]Good to see that people operate on hours, not Auckland hours.

[00:51:39]Yeah.

[00:51:40]Saturday.

[00:51:40]8am to 12.30.

[00:51:45]It's their living room.

[00:51:45]Yeah.

[00:51:45]Correct me.

[00:51:48]This is the way you live life man.

[00:51:50]We need those hours in Auckland.

[00:51:54]They've got their own road there.

[00:51:56]Daya, Lala, Taya.

[00:51:58]Oh yeah, yeah.

[00:51:58]That's his dad eh?

[00:51:59]His name's... named after his father.

[00:52:01]Dyer.

[00:52:01]Oh, Dyer.

[00:52:03]It's a little town.

[00:52:04]We went to the dairy.

[00:52:05]Everything was faded in there.

[00:52:08]But it is what it is, you know?

[00:52:10]We've got little towns like this in Aotearoa.

[00:52:11]All right, Uncle.

[00:52:13]I'll come back for my bread at five.

[00:52:17]Hey, Uncle Terence, there's all these photos.

[00:52:19]Yeah, yeah.

[00:52:20]Is that like the history of the shop?

[00:52:22]Or does this used to be a photo shop too?

[00:52:25]Past residents of Kākehi.

[00:52:28]Yeah.

[00:52:29]It's pretty cool though.

[00:52:31]Alright then, well, since my new lala ain't here, shall we head down to the river?

[00:52:36]I'm gonna see you down there.

[00:52:37]See if he's down there.

[00:52:39]Yeah?

[00:52:40]All right.

[00:52:40]Manu Manu Manu Doing Manu's down the river.

[00:52:45]OK.

[00:52:46]All right, then.

[00:53:03]So this is the Whakapapa River, which runs from the mountains and it connects to the Whanganui River which is down there.

[00:53:10]This is actually an island.

[00:53:13]The Whakapapa runs this way and the Whanganui runs on the other side of it.

[00:53:18]So yeah, we spent a lot of time down here as kids, fellowshipping with all the other kids, aunties, uncles, fishing, healing, further back up in the bush, up towards the mountains.

[00:53:33]We're going rabbit shooting tomorrow.

[00:53:34]If you just look up behind where you are, plenty of bush up there that we used to hunt.

[00:53:42]Because we used to go up there with my dad and my grandfather.

[00:53:47]And just to let everyone know, rabbit shooting is tough.

[00:53:49]That's a hard way to hunt.

[00:53:55]I don't know what rabbit you're talking about.

[00:53:58]He said yes, he said yes.

[00:54:01]So what's it like being, you know, seeing what the boys, the twins, seeing their whenua, the wai?

[00:54:07]I mean, I've only brought them here once, eh?

[00:54:10]Their placenta and that's buried here.

[00:54:13]Yeah, I can't explain it until maybe it'll click in when they get older, but I just want them to know, have those memories with their grandparents, with their koko here.

[00:54:24]And know that later on in life when they do connect it, they connect it to their koko being here and this is where they're from.

[00:54:30]I need my kids to know who they are and where they're from.

[00:54:33]And this is how I do it, you know?

[00:54:36]Having kōrero with Uncle Terence on his whenua and listening to the stories on how it used to be and what the community used to be, all the mahi that used to happen here, made me think about where I grew up in Waiōhu.

[00:54:52]Because it's a similar community, probably with the same amount of hebe jebes, but a lot of these small town communities and These little hapori that we have around the motu, that's all they are now, it's just stories.

[00:55:04]So, you know, ka aroha, you know, kia rātou.

[00:55:09]But yeah, it was cool to see how he lit up talking about sharing some of his time here, so that was pretty special.

[00:55:19]Better catch some rabbits than anybody.

[00:55:20]Let's get some rabbits, boys Coming to Kākehē, I think at the heart of it is a really beautiful story, you know.

[00:55:33]My Samoan mate who grew up in Ōtara found love with a Māori girl from the shore, who he's explained is a little bit disconnected.

[00:55:43]Him as a Samoan man, wanting his sons and his whānau to be connected to who they are, so is off to go and see so that he knows, like, actually thinking about it yesterday, it's actually quite special, you know.

[00:55:57]I'm pretty proud of my mate and I'm glad that we're with him to experience this as well.

[00:56:19]What's up?

[00:56:20]He's going to buy a Bueller.

[00:56:22]Yeah, yeah, we're out here hunting with the boys today.

[00:56:25]Helping the community out by culling some of the animals.

[00:56:28]Feeling pretty confident, you know, they are dangerous animals.

[00:56:31]Not a lot of people go hunting after these, but, you know, I thought, boys, let's be brave.

[00:56:37]Bro.

[00:56:38]All right, bro, thank you for having us out here, bro.

[00:56:40]I hear you're taking us out for a hunt, eh?

[00:56:42]Yeah, I'll just shoot some rabbits and a few turkeys.

[00:56:47]Yo Mate, we're not... I'm not too accustomed to doing this too much, but how hard do you reckon they are to kill?

[00:56:56]Pretty easy, yeah.

[00:56:59]Is there any health and safety stuff we need to be aware of?

[00:57:06]Just watching where everyone is and don't shoot each other.

[00:57:11]All in the morning, don't shoot each other guys.

[00:57:16]Growing up with my uncles, my karaua and even my father.

[00:57:20]I've done a little bit of shooting, so shooting a rifle and working with guns is not new to me.

[00:57:29]So, you know, taking a quick look at us, what do you think our success rate is going to be?

[00:57:34]Pretty high.

[00:57:38]Alright, that's us then.

[00:57:39]That's us.

[00:57:40]Right, bottomless.

[00:57:42]Out.

[00:57:45]Yeah, going into the hunt today, I don't know what to expect there.

[00:57:48]I've never shot before, so I'm a little bit nervous to be honest.

[00:57:52]It's just not my thing, this ain't my thing.

[00:57:54]But I know X has been on heaps of hunts and then TK, he's done a bit before.

[00:57:59]Biola feels a little bit green like me, but the boys, they're pretty excited.

[00:58:03]We kind of want to get something, we haven't been able to, so yeah, that's us.

[00:58:07]Now we're done here.

[00:58:07]Yeah, all good?

[00:58:08]All good?

[00:58:11]Yep.

[00:58:11]Just talked around the corner.

[00:58:15]We're gonna go hunt some rabbits and some turkeys.

[00:58:17]These are pests, apparently like a plague.

[00:58:20]So apparently we're doing a good job for the whenua here.

[00:58:31]It's gonna be... Walking with the awiri looking for these rabbits is tricky.

[00:58:43]I mean, they were everywhere.

[00:58:44]But the little buggers like to hide, you know.

[00:58:46]Every time we came over a ledge, they just ducked everywhere, and I was getting a little frustrated with myself.

[00:58:51]I'm like, maybe you need to be a little quieter.

[00:58:53]And I did see the boys behind me, and I saw them huddled up, and I knew some backstabbing talk was going on about my hunting skills.

[00:59:00]So I was like, there's no way I'm going to go back to those boys without at least a rabbit.

[00:59:05]So we rocked up to our first rabbit.

[00:59:09]A little bit nervous.

[00:59:10]Oh, I was like, what?

[00:59:16]You can go on that low D, maybe get up on that thin slime, maybe.

[00:59:25]We rocked over another ridge, lined it up, got my breathing right.

[00:59:28]I was like, it's like a American sniper, hit it on the outbreath.

[00:59:36]Maybe get up on that thin slime, maybe.

[00:59:40]Rocked up to our first rabbit, lined it up, got my breathing right.

[00:59:43]American Sniper hit it on the outbreath.

[00:59:45]Oh, did he shoot that?

[00:59:52]Bumfab, man.

[00:59:54]That was a standing one.

[00:59:55]I was like, nah, I'm not gonna lean over for this.

[01:00:00]Hey, how's it going?

[01:00:08]Just passed the fence line.

[01:00:09]Then the second one, I was like, nah, I'm going to make this look cool.

[01:00:12]So I found a big stud, leant over, lied down on it and just laid there like a model.

[01:00:28]Yeah, I was pretty happy that I got something to show the boys and I knew I wasn't going to get mocked.

[01:00:33]That was the main thing.

[01:00:41]Yeah, I was pretty proud that I like, rocked over like, you know, The Rock when he walks into the WrestleMania and throws his belt over his shoulder.

[01:00:47]I was just like, I done that with the rabbit.

[01:00:49]Quinny.

[01:00:49]He's staying hungry.

[01:00:53]Quinny Holy shit.

[01:00:55]That's how we do it.

[01:00:57]Two shots, two rabbits, not bad, Oosh.

[01:01:02]He's got it.

[01:01:02]We needed two, that's us.

[01:01:03]When I hit the two shots, I was like, oh, is he going to come back empty-handed?

[01:01:05]And then when he came back with two rabbits in his hand, I was like, oh, man.

[01:01:09]Yeah, boy.

[01:01:11]Where are we going next?

[01:01:13]There's a rabbit there, right?

[01:01:24]Because I'm a rookie, I didn't realise I got to go all around the motu trying to find me rabbits and turkeys.

[01:01:30]I just wanted to wait but no, I had to keep walking, keep trekking.

[01:01:35]No more bend over that turkey, G.

[01:01:42]Got one.

[01:01:44]Can you see it right now?

[01:01:45]I can see a stump here.

[01:01:46]Yeah, I see that stump.

[01:01:48]Look to the left.

[01:01:55]Little Rennie.

[01:01:58]I think it's called Natoli.

[01:01:59]Alright, you hear me?

[01:02:05]Yep.

[01:02:06]I love how he walks around, carries the gun like he's in America.

[01:02:12]It'll do.

[01:02:12]We're guidance young men.

[01:02:16]I heard a couple of shots, I didn't see his turkey so, he told me he got one.

[01:02:20]And I'm like, alright bro, you got one.

[01:02:23]Good thing, so.

[01:02:28]I'd probably lined up and walked 10 kms.

[01:02:31]They just keep running away, you know?

[01:02:33]There's turkeys.

[01:02:37]And then boom, these turkeys show up.

[01:02:39]There's ones at the back.

[01:02:41]There's four.

[01:02:53]It's pretty hard to miss because there was about 10 of them.

[01:02:56]But luckily one a lot closer came up into range.

[01:02:59]Get another one.

[01:03:00]Another one in front.

[01:03:08]It was kind of like, hmm, okay, you know?

[01:03:11]Like, I don't know, yeah, it was... I just didn't want to celebrate it, you know?

[01:03:15]But I'm grateful for the opportunity and the experience.

[01:03:20]How is it?

[01:03:27]We were back there going, he's gonna shoot the cow.

[01:03:29]He's got a lot.

[01:03:33]Go on, Jordan.

[01:03:36]I can't.

[01:03:37]I won't.

[01:03:37]Look at that, bro.

[01:03:38]Hurry up, man.

[01:03:39]Just hold the leg.

[01:03:40]They told me I had to kill the other one.

[01:03:44]I killed a pig with my knife.

[01:03:45]Maybe that's a trauma.

[01:03:46]I'm scared.

[01:03:49]That's some altitude hunting right there, my bro.

[01:03:54]Hurry up.

[01:03:57]Come on, TK.

[01:04:00]Oh no, there's no... TK, TK, go, go.

[01:04:04]There, there, there.

[01:04:05]I found three turkey sitting under the tree and I went, there they are, there's my opportunity, let's take this.

[01:04:11]Oh, they're right there.

[01:04:18]They're right there.

[01:04:18]Got a shot, TK, yeah.

[01:04:19]Disclaimer, my heart was beating real fast though.

[01:04:22]It was, and I thought, go back to your training, to the breathing.

[01:04:32]Shots.

[01:04:32]Got it.

[01:04:32]Got it.

[01:04:32]You got two of them.

[01:04:35]Got it.

[01:04:37]Two for one.

[01:04:39]Two for one.

[01:04:40]Two turkeys, one bullet, one shot.

[01:04:42]That's all that was required today.

[01:04:44]Two and one shot.

[01:04:48]Safety?

[01:04:48]I think TK started good but he got a bit cocky.

[01:04:50]He tried the two for one special and then... He got it.

[01:04:54]...next minute he tried to clean up his turkey.

[01:04:58]Just haymakers.

[01:04:58]Yeah.

[01:04:59]Blind shot.

[01:05:03]Oh no You know, Te Kohe, What a selfish man, you know.

[01:05:12]Bloody hell.

[01:05:13]Bloody hell?

[01:05:15]Holy shit.

[01:05:19]Today with Te Kohe, it's just been an ongoing gloat.

[01:05:26]Two birds, one bullet.

[01:05:29]Alright dudes, come on Alright boys Hey, son.

[01:05:36]How'd you guys find that?

[01:05:37]I don't know what.

[01:05:41]Well, Rawiri wasn't lying when he said a high success rate.

[01:05:43]Yeah, mate.

[01:05:44]That's it.

[01:05:44]I would have liked to have gotten one of TK's turkey.

[01:05:48]Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[01:05:49]You guys ended up sitting on the hill having a nice relax.

[01:05:53]I went all around the mochi.

[01:05:56]Hey, but you put in a good shot, though.

[01:05:58]Cardio's done.

[01:05:58]Cardio's done for the day.

[01:06:01]Yeah, that was fun, eh?

[01:06:02]I think this is the most successful hunt.

[01:06:04]You know, we all got to shoot a rifle, so that's cool in itself.

[01:06:09]It was awesome, bro.

[01:06:11]Like, definitely our style, Hototu style.

[01:06:14]I'll just... Just some of the responses.

[01:06:18]Georgie, you crack me up, bro.

[01:06:20]You're the man.

[01:06:21]You're the man now.

[01:06:22]Yeah, I think you're still brave, bro.

[01:06:24]Yeah, it's pretty brave.

[01:06:25]That monarchy stretches to the animal, too, as far as Jordan goes.

[01:06:29]I don't know if the bro was... I'm gonna get sick or have a tangi, but hey look we're all here to support whatever response comes out of all of us, eh?

[01:06:36]Well boys, on to the next adventure.

[01:06:38]On to the next.

[01:06:39]Can you tell your sons that they're Uncle Jordan?

[01:06:42]Yeah, you know, you took it out.

[01:06:43]I'm gonna tell them.

[01:06:45]I'm gonna say they were massive turkeys.

[01:06:47]No, you can say I carried it out.

[01:06:53]All right, if you show your stuff, that was us.

[01:06:56]In the bank.

[01:06:57]Yeah.

[01:06:58]This weekend has been awesome for me actually because I just feel like we've supported our mate and doing something that I think is real special.

[01:07:07]My mate is doing something for his children and I think that that's a real special thing.

[01:07:16]Overall this weekend has been pretty special.

[01:07:18]Although the heebie-jeebies, the connection between us boys on Hututu Hunter Square is the biggest.

[01:07:24]The banter that comes out, but the camaraderie and the... the manaaki that exists.

[01:07:30]Oh, wow.

[01:07:31]Oh, yeah.

[01:07:33]My father-in-law, he's my best mate, and you get to share him with the world and share how humble and how good he is as a person and to see where it started.

[01:07:42]Sure, we got to hunt, but, you know, I got to show off my dad a little bit to the world, so love you, Dad.

[01:08:16]Hi Ma-