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Fascinating New Zealanders talk about why they live where they do and their connections to their locales.
Meet the proud residents Gisborne suburb Kaiti, and shed a tear with Bill of Mahia who first made friends with Moko the dolphin.
Duck shooters gather at dawn at the White Horse Hotel in central Otago town, Becks. While, at Miller's Flat, meet a couple who built their own house complete with grass roof.
Wheelchair-bound Shirley has a collection of more than 2,000 horse ornaments and famous boatie Happy Chaddy and his mini-me apprentice explain their love of the sea.
In mid-Canterbury, meet the maker of the country's best sausage rolls, enjoy an evening with Lynda Topp, her new wife Donna, and Donna's rising country star son Cameron
Take a tour with the Chatham Islands' sole policeman, meet the Air Chathams' chief pilot who owns a 1950s flight simulator the size of a house, and visit a sacred grove of ancient hand-carved trees.
There may be a desert road running through it but there is plenty of life in the Central Plateau. People with a passion for dinosaurs, pens, art, rugby and Russia.
Meet Giggles, the happiest pig in New Zealand, and Mary, a pensioner so organised she has already painted her coffin.
