Episode 3

S1, E3: Next stop on Martin's island journey is the colourful Caribbean island of Puerto Rico, America's third largest island, and the only one where Spanish is the main language. In 2017 Hurricane Maria ripped through the island causing the worst disaster in the island's history, flattening forests and houses and ultimately claiming thousands of lives. One year on Martin sees how the Puerto Ricans have begun to recover from the disaster. Leaving Puerto Rico, Martin travels north to the Sea Islands along the coast of Georgia and the Carolinas. They're home to the unique Gullah Geechee people, descendants of African slaves who once worked the plantations on these islands. Thanks to their island remoteness, they were able to hold on to much of their African heritage in ways that mainland slaves could not. Next Martin travels north to the 200-mile string of barrier islands of the Outer Banks, which run parallel to the North Carolina coast, and protect the mainland from the full force of storms and hurricanes.