OUR FIRST OVERNIGHT HIKE WITH A BABY
AS WE WADED BACK and forth across the gently meandering Orongorongo River one January afternoon in Sophie's seventh month of life, I reflected on the journey that had brought us here.
Not the two hours of beech forest that had led us from car park to river, but the journey from a conversation which happened while hiking almost four years ago (and had been repeated many times since) to today: the moment when we took