With 2020 behind us, it's time to celebrate the summer and the new year ahead. And what better way to create a memory than to capture it as a photograph.

The first day of 2021 has brought fine weather with some rain this afternoon, but that's not stopping locals and holidaymakers making the most of being able to get out and enjoy beaches, parks and activities with family and friends.

Are you going strawberry picking? Making sandcastles at the beach? Walking or cycling through new places around the Bay? Share a photo with us by emailing SunLive on [email protected] and include a photo caption with first name and second name of anyone in the photo, your name and where the photo was taken. Or click here

Tomorrow we'll put up a page selecting from your best photos to share with everyone.

Welcome Bay Vet Clinic veterinarian John Drummond at the Mount Maunganui beach piano.

Bernadette and David Bridgens enjoying the downtown Tauranga vibe on The Strand.

Moss Crawford-Saunders, age 3, strawberry picking at Somerfield Farm in Oropi with his father Ford Saunders.

Daniel Hines with his cat Possum who was put safely into 'kitty lockdown' for a few hours indoors until after the New Year's Eve fireworks were over.