Getting outside is a must-have in our world, where’s your favourite spot in nature and why?

In summertime our favourite place is the wharf in our little beach town. The best swimming place for little bodies and because of this there’s often friends around for them too.

Where’s the most memorable spot you’ve gathered and why?

Umupuia Marae in Maraetai. This is where Rowan and I were married. There’s so many things I could say about this place, I feel so lucky that we were welcomed here. The whole way it came to be was very serendipitous, which I feel often the best things are. Actually life with Rowan feels very serendipitous on the whole. When Rowan and I were talking about what would make a day feel special for us, we realised our most valued time is that slow time where good conversations with friends can happen. When we met with Laurie, one of the family members of the Marae he told us the proverb of Umupuia is ‘ko te kai a te rangatira he kōrero’ - the food of Chief’s is dialogue. We stayed there for two nights with friends and family eating good food and swimming.

If you had to describe a day where your time was well spent, what would it include?

It changes with the seasons, at the moment it’s going to the beach while the sun is still making its way up the sky, and having at least one meal on or by the sand. The photos that I took were on one of Rowan’s days off from Camina and it turned out to be what I would say is a day of time well spent. Down to the wharf for the morning, always with some oranges from our tree. I mixed up some sourdough flatbread dough in the morning before leaving in case of a beach dinner. The boys hung out outside eating more oranges in the afternoon while I got dinner together with greens from the garden and what we had in the fridge and spent the rest of what was left of sunlight hours back down at the wharf.