Snake Island Doco Preview

In this Ben Cropp production we are taken to Niue; the beautiful, uplifted atoll situated in the Central Pacific, 4000km north of Australia. Honeycombed with limestone caves, Niue is a speck of land in a vast ocean of sea snakes and humpback whales.

We join Cropp as he explores both the islands colourful wildlife, and the people that inhibit it. The island lies in the migratory path of the great Humpback whale, and it is here they come to calve and mate. We are taken on many dives in which the team capture wonderful underwater footage of these gentle giants.

Join the team as they go in search of Snake Gully, the location where sea snakes, indigenous only to the island, come ashore to lay their eggs. It is estimated that around 90% of the hatchlings will be eaten in there first year. Their first test is to make it past the sharks that circle
the island.

Cropp and his team then take us to another part of the island to meet some of the locals to find out more about their culture and their way of life. We find a new church has just been opened, and everyone joins in the celebrations. It is the Niue way to give money and gifts to all the performers at such an event, who perform a dance for all visitors of the island.

Among the splendid array of scenery and wildlife captured during the filming the team make one last extraordinary discovery when they return to their diving spot to find a baby whale has been born.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• Sea Snakes
• Nuie
• Humpback Whale
• Great Barrier Reef
• Coral Sea
• Australia
• Scuba Diving
• Adam Cropp
• Ben Cropp
• Dean Cropp
• Freedom