Hauraki Gulf / Tīkapa Moana

So did dad, um, him and his mates just sat in the back of the boat drinking, I don't know, a hundred bottles of Lion Red or something the night before.

Um, but the next day it was just he and I that went out and it was a glamor day on the Hauraki Gulf, not a breath of wind, glassy calm.

We're anchored up, fish are not biting.

Um, But Dad was most excited because it was the first boat that we'd ever had with a toilet in it.

So we worked really hard and I feel it is an absolute honour and privilege to represent the people of my home and community.

and continue to advocate to ensure that there is real action on homelessness, which unfortunately this government has made far worse, protecting our Hauraki Gulf and ensuring that everybody has their basic needs

met.

Not you personally, but your coalition, your group is behind.

And the group of national MPs and candidates are saying they'll establish a contestable $8 million coastline and oceans clean-up fund and increase fisheries protections.

for the Hauraki Gulf and the exclusive economic zone.

What else is on the agenda? A lot of sport coming up over the weekend as well.

The second ODI, New Zealand and India coming up.

But I think the general thrust of it, I sort of knew.

I think what's really interesting about reality TV, especially in the New Zealand context, but also around the world, is it's kind of... evolved accidentally like it came from if you look at early reality shows in New Zealand or anywhere globally a lot of them weren't like we think of now you know a 10 episode or 12 or 25 episode series of something carefully structured they were kind of like a bit more chaotic like 90 minute single episode specials was a couple of things we did there was one where we stranded some people on an island in the Hauraki Gulf and that was a 90 minute special And another one I talk about on the show is the $20 challenge, which is a New Zealand series show, which we did as a, again, it was a 90 minute special.

Those weren't really reality shows as we understand them today.

They weren't like a serialized story.

You can't go past here, you can't go this past that point, or it's just not safe to do because the waves get too big.

So it's the attractiveness of the environment of the Hauraki Gulf that get people on longer trips to see the islands and to explore what Auckland has to offer.

What are your plans for the future? How do you think it's going to go? Do you see yourself going from four to six or, you know, jet skis? What's your sort of thinking there?

Well, the idea is to grow the business.

I just do it for fun.

And living in Auckland, we're blessed with the Hauraki Gulf and West Coast, East Coast, you know, we've got so many choices.

But there is something different, isn't there, about a fish that's been caught and you go home and you have it that night as opposed to one that's a couple of days old.

Well, I'm actually going to stop you right there.

We put them in a double buggy.

We went over to Rangitoto, which is a dormant volcano here in the Hauraki Gulf.

And we put them both in the buggy and we ran up to the summit of Rangitoto every day.

And that was our little thing.