We are currently living on Yugambeh Country in the Currumbin Valley in south-east Queensland. Until July last year, home with my young family has always been Pittwater in NSW. When we saw the state borders closing from COVID-19, we decided to pack up our little family in my husband\u2019s beloved Land Rover Defender (a retired regional fire truck!) to undertake a camping trip around Queensland. We turned a corner at Birdsville and headed back towards the south-east coast and we\u2019ve been in Currumbin Valley ever since.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m very slow in the morning! I always start with a big, long cuddle with my kids in bed and then a cup of tea on our verandah. We\u2019re very lucky here in our new home that we overlook Currumbin Creek and a 30-foot waterfall \u2014 I pinch myself every morning!<\/p>\n
I\u2019m in the Australian desert. There is something about the red earth that just gets me every time. Its pulse, the energy, the vast sky where the stars come down to meet the horizon in that infinite expanse.<\/p>\n
And the alps! I feel so deeply connected to the mountains both here and abroad. To quote Mary Oliver, \u201cFor me, the door to the woods is the door to the temple.\u201d I love snowboarding \u2014 those off-piste adventures are my adrenaline rush and burst open my heart and physical presence. Glaciers can bring me to tears with their raw majesty and every breath of the journey etched into the ice; a huge mass crawling through the ages and then tiny me \u2014 it\u2019s an exercise in humility.<\/p>\n
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