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Our Big Blue Backyard - Goat Island
Season 1 , Episode 2Our Big Blue Backyard visits Goat Island, one of New Zealand's oldest marine reserves. Although the creatures are safe from humans it doesn't mean their life is easy. -
Our Big Blue Backyard - Northland Harbours
Season 1 , Episode 1New Series: Northland reveals the unique behavior of a majestic predator and its equally charismatic prey. While only in New Zealand do Orca families cooperatively - and ingeniously - hunt rays. -
Our Big Blue Backyard - Poor Knights Islands
Season 1 , Episode 3New Zealand’s Poor Knights Islands is considered one of the world’s top dive sites and for good reason, with a rich collection of extraordinary characters and bizarre behaviours. -
Our Big Blue Backyard - Kaikoura
Season 1 , Episode 4New Zealand’s Kaikoura peninsula is home to the world’s most acrobatic dolphin species, some of New Zealand’s most robust young Fur Seals, and an unconventional group of Red-Billed Gull families. -
Our Big Blue Backyard - Open Bay Islands
Season 1 , Episode 5On New Zealand’s remote Open Bay Islands, New Zealand fur seals protect their newborns from surging seas, starvation, and predation by Great White Sharks. -
Our Big Blue Backyard - Stewart Island
Season 1 , Episode 6Season Final: Little Blue Penguins run the gauntlet to escape Great White Sharks – but they’re not the only species flirting with death on New Zealand’s famous Stewart Island. -
Our Big Blue Backyard - Banks Peninsula
Season 2 , Episode 6Final: In Banks Peninsula's bays, tiny penguins, Hector's dolphins, and wetland birds experience a dramatic spring and summer as the epic migration of an ancient longfin eel concludes. -
Our Big Blue Backyard - Chatham Islands
Season 2 , Episode 3New Zealand's remote Chatham Islands attract roaming predators from all over the South Pacific but the resident blue cod and brown skuas might just be the most ferocious of all. -
Our Big Blue Backyard - Fiordland
Season 2 , Episode 4In the wettest corner of New Zealand, where alien ocean creatures flourish under a freshwater layer, crested penguins struggle to raise their chicks in the midst of a harsh Fiordland winter. -
Our Big Blue Backyard - Auckland Islands
Season 2 , Episode 5Auckland Islands: Every summer, massive congregations of New Zealand sea lions and giant spider crabs descend upon the sub-Antarctic Auckland Islands to carry out their violent breeding rituals. -
Our Big Blue Backyard - Kermadec Islands
Season 2 , Episode 1New Season: The Kermadec Islands are in New Zealand's northern-most waters, and during spring a plankton bloom triggers a carnival of life, from tiny coral polyps to the largest humpback whales. -
Our Big Blue Backyard - White Island
Season 2 , Episode 2Around White Island, common dolphins, Australasian gannets, and local reef residents adapt to survive the scorching, toxic conditions on New Zealand's most active volcano.
