Suzy's Big Day Out - Episodes and Excerpts

Snow is amazing stuff. See how it binds together? Great for snow balls.

– Suzy Cato gets down in the snow at Cardrona ski field

Just get a good start, push hard out of the gates, look ahead and go fast.

– A fellow skier gives Suzy Cato some advice

The whole town gets involved in the food festival which is expected to attract 15,000 people — three times the town's population.

– Suzy Cato describes Hokitika's annual Wildfoods Festival

Things look different at a horse's pace. You're so high in the saddle and looking down on the world as it slowly moves by.

– Suzy Cato enjoys the view on a horse trail in Central Otago

Children are very astute. They'll get their money's worth, they'll look at the bag and they'll work it out.

– A Hokitika baker of sweet treats knows her customers

You'll see animals very tall, you'll see animals very small, you'll see them all at the zoo...

– Suzy Cato sings about the Auckland Zoo

Happy tails and happy trails.

– An experienced horse trekker on how to tell if a horse is happy

How do you brush an elephant? Where do you begin with all that wrinkly skin?

– Suzy Cato's song about brushing down the elephants at the zoo

As a parent, to be able to have your child hearing their own voices, hearing their own stories — it's not all about the great thing of being overseas, and kids starting to talk in an American accent, it's about about acknowledging who we are as a nation. If you want to have a great global citizen they've got to have a good appreciation of who they are within their own community. If you aren't sharing their stories and promoting themselves to them, then they're going to look elsewhere for their role models.

– Suzy Cato on the importance of Kiwi kids seeing their communities and experiences in the media, Radio New Zealand, 15 January 2018