Rio Olympics-bound Fisher is unexpectedly finding some quality down time.
"This trip is a bit of a surprise for me because I didn't think I'd be coming home before Rio," she said, after paddlers were granted a week at home following a lengthy build up.
"It's good to come back to see the family and the kids and, at the same time, to give something back to my community," she said, returning to Auckland, where she has been based since 2014, on Sunday before jetting off with the team to Rio on July 2.
Her mother, Darryl, and aunt Sherryl watched her compete at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Cup in Duisburg, Germany, last month where she collected a bronze in the non-Olympic distance K4 200m race, before matching that effort in the Olympic K4 event over 500m at the next world cup regatta in Racice, Czech Republic, with Jaimee Lovett, Caitlin Ryan and Kayla Imrie.
"I've never had family come over to watch me so it was cool," said the 21-year-old who won gold with Lovett in the non-Olympic K2 200m. "I just loved it. Everytime I'd go out for a warm up I'd give them a big wave and they would all be hollering from the grandstands so it was so neat."
While family had thought of going to Rio, Fisher felt it wasn't a very good idea as she would "worry about them too much".
"There's a lot going on in Rio that doesn't make it the safest place and then there's the cost so it all adds up but they'll be watching on the TV screens here and cheering away."
Having raced other nations, the team are wiser going to Rio for races from August 20 on Rodrigo de Freitas Lake.
Ukraine, Belarus and Hungary have surfaced as the ones to beat.
"It'll be interesting to see what happens when we line up in Rio. We still have quite a lot of work to do and I'm sure they all do, too."
Her flirtation with paddling began at 7 when her father, Chris, bought plastic kayaks for the family to go camping and fishing.
"From there I went to canoe polo and kayaking was the natural path but, I tell you, I'd look at rowing a few times and thought it does appeal to me but not so much any more," Fisher said with a laugh.
With Olympic gold medallists and twins Georgina and Caroline Evers-Swindells, of Hastings, and later World Cup-winning Twigg causing ripples along Clive River, she was mindful of the sister code's influence but the feel of paddling and need for speed on the heels of a power surge won. "I had my very first session [kayaking] down at the river in a K4 and I just hated it but at the end of the session [coach] Pip [Pearse] put me in my own boat so I don't even know how to explain it but at that moment there was something about kayaking that I loved so much."
She sees the similarities in both codes - albeit one facing forward and the other backwards - and may flirt with rowing but she's adamant she isn't cut out for the 2km distance.
Fisher, Lovett, Ryan and Imrie infectiously feed off each other.
"I know we're all really driven. Every session we go to everyone is dreaming and thinking about Rio so every rep you do in the gym is still the race in the Olympics," Fisher said.
Lovett, in seat one, calls the shots and holds the strategy portfolio.
"Jaimee does things no one else in the world can do so she's amazing at her job," said Fisher who occupies seat three with Ryan in two as the pair put their heads down to stoke the fire in the engine room for the long haul.
"Kayla Imrie's in seat four and her role is to be the explosive powerhouse so she'll go 100 per cent for 200m and then hang on for dear life."
