Living an adventurous, wild, simple family life on New Zealand's remote D'Urville Island.

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Learning to ride a motorbike has never been on my bucket list. Happiest manning four wheels, or my own two …

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There’s not much about living on D’Urville Island that could be considered ‘normal’. From sourcing …

Living where we do on rural D’Urville Island, we’re used to the fact that we’re …

There are a few things to note about Island weather. The first thing, is that …

Who knew mussel buoys had so many uses? I certainly didn’t! In all honesty, I …

There are a lot of wild pigs on D’Urville Island, I mean heaps. Whole swaths …

Realising that we do in fact need a boat—and that it wasn’t just another whim …

We’ve entered a time warp. I can’t believe it’s been seven days since we first …

To get a fuller picture of what it’s like to live on the Island, it …

We had less than a day to go in Oxford and at this point, surveying …