Te Anau School principal Grant Excell isn't going to let a lack of funding get in the way of his school building a new hall.

Instead he's preparing to kayak around the entire edge of Lake Te Ānau something he says has never been done before.

And he will do all this on the first day of the new school year.

He talks to Max about the journey and his drive to build a new hall for his community.

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