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Kitty met Dan (pictured with eight-year- old Tama) in the Coromandel two weeks before moving to Britain. Love prompted her future husband to save enough money to join her two months later. Coincidentally, Kitty and Kirsten’s husbands share the same name; every evening kororā (little blue penguins) can be seen waddling up from the beach to their seaside burrows at Pukekura. A nightly tour of the colony (bluepenguins.co.nz) helps support the kaitiaki (guardian) work of the Pukekura Trust, a joint venture between Korako Karetai Trust (Kitty and Kirsten’s whānau) and the Otago Peninsula Trust.