The Island Keeper/Resident Manager: Jesse Siebler
Contact the Keeper for all booking enquiries for overnight stays & day visitor use of Lodge & Married Quarters building for events: keeper@quarantineisland.org.nz (note the old Keeper email quarantineisland@gmail.com is no longer in use).
Keeper mobile: 022 066 6747
Mail: Quarantine Island/Kamau Taurua Community Incorporated
10 Hatchery Road, Portobello, Dunedin 9014
Charity Treasurer: Adrienne Dearnley. Contact the treasurer for questions on payments and invoices.
GST number: 55000514
Charity Secretary: Claire Hagglund Mobile: 021 105 8442 Email: secretary.quarantineisland@gmail.com
Keeper (Resident Manager) – Jesse Siebler – May 2026 –
Ehara taku toa i te toa takitahi engari he toa takitini taku toa.
The Māori whakataukï really resonates with me and island life.
We are Jesse, Taylor and Zella and our whanau are moving to Kamau Taurua from across the ditch- in Tasmania. Jesse and Taylor have spent half of the past decade island keeping as the two sole occupants. We are very excited to be the new residents on Quarantine Island. This time with our daughter.
We want to share the beauties and simplicities of an island life with our family and with visitors. We also want to learn from and contribute to the community. Our daughter has a big heart for animals and nature and we are thankful for the opportunity to collaborate and share with others the importance of protecting and restoring wild places.
Previous Keeper – Jon Clark – July 2023 to November 2025
Jon had a long and deep connection with the island, and spent many days as a young adult with his mother Pamela and father, Charles Clark, members of the St. Martin Island Community. Jon lived on the island in 1985-1986 and helped Rev.Dave Wilson (the first SMIC resident Keeper who lived on the island for 10 years) care for the animals, maintain fences and buildings, and welcome groups. Jon also assisted his father in replacing the piles and timbers on the jetty. Jon returned to the Island as our Keeper in 2023 and loved living in, what he described as, paradise. Jon died unexpectedly in the Cottage from a sudden brain haemorrhage, and was found by members of the QI/KT Community on Saturday 29th November. Jon is deeply missed, both as a wonderful Keeper, and as a friend to many QI/KT Community members, volunteers, and returning Lodge guests. Rest in peace, Jon.
Previous Keeper – Olivia(Liv)Taylor-Peebles – June 2022 to May 2023
Previous Keeper – Floris (Flo) Wouters – March to June 2022
Previous Keeper – Meghan Hughes with whanau Gareth, Zoe & Arlo – July 2020 to March 2022
Previous Keeper – Dries Van den Broeck with whanau Nadjejda Espinel Velasco, Noah and Lucia – October 2017 to July 2020
