My fondest childhood memory...

Holidays at Whangamata. We had this great bach right on the beach and we were always out in the dinghy, or a canoe, boogie-boarding for hours, snorkelling, playing spacies at the estuary store or Go Home Stay Home at night in the dunes. One school holidays – I was about 14 – Mum wasn’t getting us on the road as fast as I’d have liked, so I rode there on my bike. From Hamilton.