water babies
The beauty of living on this stunning collection of islands known as Aotearoa is that we are surrounded by spectacular beaches and oceans.
Sandly many of us never learn to swim and would not be able to get out of trouble if we were to find ourselves, unintentionally, in te moana (the sea), an awa (river) or even a swimming pool (puna kaukau).
Before I could walk, I was a water baby, graduating from the big plastic tub on the bathroom floor, to the old tin tub on the lawn, then the full-size bath tub (often with the cousins
