Family time . . . Making the most of being stuck together are (from left) Kate Caldwell, Andrew Caldwell, baby Charlie Caldwell and Fiona Caldwell. PHOTO: SUPPLIED
Being stranded in Australia was not all bad for Oamaru’s Kate Caldwell when the transtasman bubble burst earlier this month.
The swim coach and student spoke to the
Oamaru Mail last week from the “middle of nowhere”, where her brother Andrew manages a sheep and crop farm about two hours’ drive from Perth.
Miss Caldwell and her mother, Fiona, had travelled to Kujan, Western Australia, to meet Andrew’s first baby, Charlie (5 months).
“Then Perth went into lockdown, and then we were like, ‘oh God, OK, we can’t leave any more’.”