Island time
The Judkins family aren’t the type to sit around and do nothing on their summer holiday. Instead, after building, decorating and landscaping their dream bach on Aotea/Great Barrier Island, they set about renovating three dilapidated neighbouring cottages – just for fun.
But before they got stuck into any of these projects, Sarah, Jason and their young kids, Zach and Madi (now teenagers), spent five summers camping on the section they had purchased in 2007, which is in Gooseberry Flat, overlooking Tryphena Harbour.
They’d spent an idyllic summer camping on the island years before and had been looking to buy there ever since. “One of the
