Mike Edward, Shortland Street actor and Childfund ambassador.
My happy place is Karekare beach. It has been since I was teenager and we used to go there after school. That's a big effort when you first get cars. We'd just hang out there late at night. And I had my 21st on the beach. I've just always loved it.
These days it's always the place I go to either just to have a really good time, or to regroup my long-lost spirituality (I'm always lost. I should get out there more).
In fact, I moved there after a separation last year. It was really good, it was beautiful. But then after about three months - after I stopped shedding tears and looking at the sunset - I realised I lived miles away from anywhere and should move back in.
I had a whole summer out there so I had every Saturday just playing with my kids. It was all about scaling sand dunes, jumping down them, playing in the estuary ... We've got a game called Rocks Off a Bridge, where we collect a bunch of rocks in a towel and sit on the bridge and just throw them in the water.