For many of us, the price we pay for living in this slice of paradise is having to travel far and wide for work. It can be an exciting, draining, and relationship-straining existence, but returning home each time is made so much sweeter by the time away. Local musician, Charles Wall AKA Bobby Alu, and environmental lawyer, Nina Lucas, are no strangers to this lifestyle, each having to regularly leave Byron Shire for music tours and legal cases. We caught them both on a rare weekend at home.

She is the ground beneath us, the sky up above. Her warm embrace is the thickness of the forest, her love, a cool ocean breeze. She holds the space for creation; she is creation. Yogini Brooklyn Reardon embraces our Mother Earth and is held in return.

When we’re young, we often get asked ‘What do you want to be when you grow up?’ It’s a cute conversation starter, but let’s be real, there’s no way some of us could have fathomed where we would end up.

We spent a glorious morning basking in the soft sunshine at this beautifully low-impact home.

Hiromi sent me her address with a novella sized addendum attached to it. Apparently Google Maps had yet to document this portion of the world.

Heath’s paintings on the wall are accompanied by polaroids and botanical knick knacks, and the new plaster sculptures he’s been working on sit between indoor plants that look too happy to belong to a share house.