When Tom Doig started reading about doomsday preppers and survivalist subcultures, his first question was: “What if they’re crazy?” His second question was: “What if they’re right?”
The Waiwhakaiho runs to sea at New Plymouth—the end of a short 25-kilometre flow across Taranaki's ring plain from the top of the mounga.
There are no less than 1400 traps forming a lethal net around the mounga—traps that must be checked and re-baited every month.
Pat Nukunuku inspects frames and inserts new queens to maintain good production on his hives at Lottin Point.
Though still damp with autumn rain Tony Ferkins decided it was "better to be cutting than doing nothing", so fired up the combine harvester in Tolaga Bay.
Elaine Kasper doesn't have far to go to collect a feed of kina—the rocks at Papatea Bay, outside the historic Ruakokore Church usually provide a shopping bag full in a few minutes.
Though nearly 5pm, Harry's shearing gang digs deep to work through the last ewes on Waikura.
The utes arrive for evening footy practice at the Hikurangi Sports Club in Ruatoria.
The 600-metre wharf at Tolaga Bay is the second-longest in New Zealand.
Tourists take a load off at Kerosene Creek, a natural hotspring on the Wai-o-Tapu tributary that ultimately runs into the Waikato.
Allan Bryant guides his log truck up Waipa State Mill Road to the Whakarewarewa weighbridge to check through a load of pine from a farm wood lot near the river.
It's Craig Caldwell's last day in 'the office' before his retirement as production technician of Maraetai Power Station.
Atiamuri Power Station was the third of eight hydroelectric power stations to take advantage of the massive vertical potential of the Waikato River.
Ohakuri local Nik Gibson has won the national wakeboarding champs four times, and travelled to the Worlds in Korea, Doha, Italy and Australia, first time at age 14.
Mike Holmes pulls shortfin eels from a fyke net, under the watchful eye of his hound Jack. A decent day returns 150 kilograms—six bags—to make up his 20-tonne quota for the year.
Secondary school sailing teams manoeuvre before the start of a team race at Snells Beach north of Auckland.
Richard Manuka leans on his hoe and drives his waka-ama towards the city from Birkenhead Point.
The irony is that the camera can't see far enough to properly document the worst sites in the Hauraki Gulf—they're too turbid to see more than a foot.
Fishermen cast a line from Orakei Wharf. For some, fishing here is recreational. For many others, it's about sustenance.
A Leigh Fisheries longliner reels in a catch with practiced efficiency.
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