Sam Smith loves showing office workers there's far more to life than a desk and phone. The kayak tour guide spends most of his days out on the water taking tourists around Urupukapuka Island ...

Exotic caulerpa - which has smothered other forms of marine life when it has become established ... on the western side of Urupukapuka Island; at Army/Waiwhapuku Bay, off Moturua Island; and ...

Ewes and their newborn lambs enjoy some time on the beach at Cable Bay, Urupukapuka Island. Photos / S Curtis Where else can you watch newborn lambs basking on a beach while oystercatchers comb ...

"We're deliberately forcing it," he says. Restoring the habitat and bringing back the bird life he says is still behind on Urupukapuka Island. The majority of the work on the island has been weed ...