Name: Living Off the Grid in Paradise
Uploaded: 2017-07-23T11:13:49.000Z
Duration: 3 min 42 s
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- [Warrick] We're four days walk from the nearest road.

Adverbs of degree

The landscape's vast, the wilderness is almost unlimited.

The access is by aircraft, on foot, or on the right day,

you can boat it, but it's a challenge in itself.

Really, we are at the mercy of the weather and the tides

It's difficult living out here, but if you do what's needed

- [Narrator] Warrick Mitchell lived in Fiordland,

New Zealand's oldest and largest national park.

like everywhere, you need shelter, a good dry camp.

we have two boats for fishing and diving,

and we have the freezer which keeps our food

you're really at the mercy of the weather and the elements,

so there's certain times that will allow you to go out

and harvest a deer or catch a fish, capture the menu.

If you have a down day and the waves are really good,

you're more than likely gonna go surfing.

but the river's looking nice, you might catch a trout.

If the waves are flat but the ocean's calm,

If the ocean's stormy, you might go up the river

Living in the wilderness doesn't mean you're living

We certainly couldn't be doing what we do

if it wasn't for the pilots and our neighbors

Whether it's the harshness of the environment

and being so isolated that brings people together

or the fact that the people that are willing

to travel this far have like minded passion

is that the community's become really tight knit.

Can you go ahead and turn this main switch on

When things break or things don't go your way,

Everything else is a bonus, so you can't get too serious

I don't know too many places in the world

where you can stand on a boat looking back

and you can just see ocean leading into forest leading

into massive snow-capped mountains and glacier-shaped bays

The trees are as they were 200 years ago,

they get to experience this nature as it was

and as it should be, and we try to keep the area