Having children can upend anyone’s world, but for the Kearneys of Tauranga, that upending was literal – they swapped the northern hemisphere for the southern. New Zealand-born Kimberley had been living in the UK for 10 years – and had married an Irishman – when she felt the call of
Aotearoa getting louder, with childhood memories of golden sands, long, sunny days and the glittering ocean painting a picture of what she imagined for her own young family.
“Growing up, I spent most of the school holidays in the Coromandel at my grandparents’ beach house and I always held such wonderful memories of being out fishing on the boat, hours spent in the ocean and beachcombing for collecting treasures,” Kimberley says. “I wanted this for my children.”
They moved to Tauranga in 2018, and as they juggled family with work and busy lives, Kimberley and her husband hankered for a beachside escape that they and their three young children could enjoy on weekends and holidays –
