Islands of the Gulf - Episode 4

It's really nice in the winter because there's no one around and the fishing's good and you get a lot of tradies coming over fixing stuff that needs to be fixed...

– Kawau Islander and skipper John Laurie on the best time to be on Kawau Island

Employment can be quite piecemeal here, so you sort of put together a week that has enough work in it that you can survive...

– Great Barrier Island's Kathy Cummings, community radio coordinator, council worker and dishwasher

We're saying ' you've got enough fish now, you don't need any more, what are you going to do with them' and so we're encouraging people to think more ecologically...

– Hooked on Barrier skipper Chris Ollivier on encouraging day trippers to be more ecologically aware

In Mum's day you were lucky to get a glass of Cold Duck.

– Presenter Elisabeth Esther on the proliferation of vineyards on Waiheke Island

Everyone's your friend when you produce wine.

– Waiheke Island winemaker and horticulturist Mike Taylor

...there's this whole idea that Waiheke's like 'the land of the rich' you know; it's like vineyards and big mansions . . . yes that's a part of the island, but then there's people here living in poverty, there's people here living in vehicles. There's like a whole side of Waiheke that people don't know about, and that doesn't get put out into the media, or onto the Condé Nast traveller site...

– Adventure guide Bianca Ransom on the clichés about Waiheke Island

One of the statistics which we like to say on the island is that ten per cent of all weddings in New Zealand are held on Waiheke.

– Waiheke Islands flower grower Christy Ralphs