We have lived in the area for 28 years and our children have grown up, left home and are working in Auckland.
We love it here, we are almost a bit rural, but very central to everything in Whangarei City.
Leone is a Secondary School teacher and Mark runs our website design and commercial printing business. We spend as much time as we can, depending on weather, at the beach. Camping, boating, fishing and paddle-boarding are passions of ours.
We are also hockey mad! Our son and daughter both represented NZ in hockey at the Rio Olympics, and our daughter was in the NZ Blacksticks team that won the Gold medal at the Commonwealth Games, Gold Coast.
We have stayed at Air BNB's & HomeAways both overseas and in New Zealand while travelling for hockey, and since discovering this form of accommodation, would never go back to motels or hotels.
We love the different places, the homely atmospheres and different people we have met, and look forward to extending the same hospitality with our own short term rental accommodation.