Heading south

It's Easter, the old pagan festival of spring turned upside down in this southern place where spring festivals are celebrated in autumn. On this southernmost island of this southern place, I am walking the South Cape walk with my daughter during her school holiday. She laughs at my old-mum awkwardness, unsure of my footing along rocky paths; she walks ahead of me through various forests of differing personalities, greeted by trickling creeks and the openness of windy grasslands.