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    Changing tack

    Jan 20, 2021 4 minutes
    BY KIRSTY MCKENZIE
    PHOTOGRAPHY ROSS WILLIAMS, STYLING BRONTE CAMILLERI

    Although Ruth and Dzint Jurevicius tell people they’ve retired, the truth is their lives couldn’t be busier. Admittedly, Ruth has given up her demanding role as general manager of a training organisation and Dzint, his long-time career as a high school art teacher. But the couple has exchanged their busy work lives for a raft of fresh opportunities on the river-bound Hindmarsh Island, where the Murray meets the ocean on South Australia’s Fleurieu Peninsula.

    “We both grew up in Adelaide,” Ruth explains. “My father was a university professor. Dzint was born here to Latvian/ Lithuanian parents. They came

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