Kelly Austin remembers the first time she saved a life – originally from Whitianga but now living in Bali, she was walking near her Canggu home in 2017.
“I saw these kids in a rice paddy laughing and realised they were drowning kittens,” recalls the 39-year-old. “I managed to save three kittens, which I found homes for.”
Kelly and her husband Tony, a fellow Kiwi who works in the Queensland mines, first moved to the tourist hotspot in 2015, with their sons Marcel,