The Trail Less Traveled

Recorded aboard a cray boat in the infamously wild Tasman Sea, Mandela spends 15 hours on board recording & after a day at sea finally manages to get sea sick mid-interview... Featuring an interview with Possum, a hard working second generation crayfisherman on a 54' cray boat called, "The Southern Legend." This boat brings in the most crayfish in all of New Zealand, about 80 tons per year. 90% of the crayfish caught in New Zealand is live exported to China. Possum grew up in the tiny fishing village of Jackson Bay on the South Island's isolated west coast. To this day, Possum's parents still live in a small home heated by coal. Possum's father continues to help out with fishing from time to time. Possum works with a crew of two other fisherman who start their day at 4am pulling crayfish from pots in reefs of the wild & extremely remote west coast of the South Island. Possum works almost everyday of the year & hardly ever gets to see his family.

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Callum Morrison is from Harrogate in North Yorkshire. He had a unique childhood & grew up adventuring from a young age. He is the owner & operator of River & Soul Adventures, custom river & culture tours around Nepal. He gives back to the community by employing locals & giving computers to schools. Callum is also a class V whitewater kayaker & sea kayak guide in the Milford Sound on New Zealand's South Island's West Coast.

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Adam Collier is a native north islander who has salt water running through his veins. Adam has worked seven season as a sea kayak guide & skipper in New Zealand's South Island in Fiordland's Milford Sound. Due to the isolated nature of this region of the world, Adam & his friends have decided to brew their own fun using the fresh glacier melt water of Lady Elizabeth Bowen Falls. The waterfall is the main source of water & electricity for the hamlet of Milford & it is three times the size of Niagara Falls. Adam is a home brewer who created the "Wild Foods & Brews Festival", an annual gathering of locals featuring home brewing, hunting & gathering from the sea & from the land.

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Chris Ewart is from New Zealand's south island and has been whitewater boating since he was 13 years old. Chris guides in New Zealand, Honduras ​& currently on the forks of the American River in Northern California.

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Recorded inside a sacred Maori ancestral meeting place called a Marae, on the east coast of New Zealand's North Island. Mandela interviews Robyn Rauna, of the indigenous Maori Tribes of Aotearoa. Robyn is a proud indigenous woman of Ngaio Tāmanuhiri, Rongoa fakata & Teitangamahaki. the Marae, sacred open meeting area, generally situated in front of the "whare runanga", communal meeting house, is the area of greatest mana, the place of greatest spirituality ; the place that heightens people's dignity, and the place in which Māori customs are given ultimate expression.

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Frank traveled to New Zealand 30 years ago on a surfing trip & never returned. Frank Russell grew up in Whittier, California & at age eight started surfing on belly boards, surf mats & body surfing. Then at 17, Frank found Cal Western University located right on the Sunset Cliffs, a Mecca for reef breaks. In 2003 Frank started his surf coaching school called, "Surfing with Frank" & he led surf trips in Mexico when the water in New Zealand is too cold. www.surfingwithfrank.com

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Interviewing Geoff Carpenter, AKA "Carp". Carp is a second generation herpetologist and boatman who specializes in lizards. Geoff has been rowing rafts and studying herpes in the Grand Canyon for over a decade. Geoff teaches field herpetology at the University of Oklahoma's biological field station.

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Recorded on location in Gisborne, New Zealand where lieutenant James Cook and his men first made contact with the Maori people on October 8th, 1769. Mandela interviews Sheridan Gundry, an award winning journalist and author of five books. Her most recent book is titled "A Splendid Isolation," which covers the general history of Gisborne and New Zealand's north island's eastern coast.

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Recorded in Gisborne, New Zealand in the C Company Memorial House featuring an interview with a descendent of the Maori Battalion. The Maori Battalion served in both World War I & II, they were famously feared in battle and consisted entirely of volunteers as the "Price of Citizenship" to their country. Mandela interviews Zandria Taare, who tells us the story of her famous grand father who spent four years in a POW camp in Germany, the son of the man on New Zealand's $50 note. Zandria will also speak about how the Maori are trying to protect the foreshore and seabed from oil companies as well as how Missionaries have affected the art & culture to this day. Zandria will also share Maori songs and language tips.​

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Georges de Giorgio was born in a car wreck in France while his father, Italian Count of Santoponte, raced his mother of chilean indian/spanish decent to Italy--where he was supposed to be born. George's father moved the family to Chile at the age of 4 where he grew up working in his father's wooden ship boatyard. Georges has spent over 30 years sailing the oceans of the world & was the first navigator for the famous explorer HW Tilman on the ship, "Mischief." Georges hunted for Sir Frances Drake's lost treasure on Robinson Crusoe island. Georges also survived tsunami by surfing his ship in a massive tsunami off the coast of Chile.

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