About Us
Kia Ora!
Welcome to our D'Urville Island adventure.
We are a family of five—plus a pussy cat—living and homeschooling on D’Urville Island in New Zealand’s Marlborough Sounds. With no shops, fuel stops, or sealed roads, it’s a quiet life full of challenge, wild beauty, adventure, creativity and more people than you’d guess.
AmazingEverything.life is the story of us, and the discoveries we’ve made about surviving and thriving in one of New Zealand’s most remote places.
Our Backstory
My name is Rethenwyn and I grew up in the south of England—the beautiful New …
A chance homeschooling encounter combined with COVID-19.
We had less than a day to go in Oxford and at this point, surveying …
About the Island
To get a fuller picture of what it’s like to live on the Island, it can be handy to be …