Fieldwork in social research occurs in the world as ‘lived in’ by human beings. The process of conducting fieldwork as part of the research journey is preceded by formal processes of identifying methodologies, designing data collection tools, making decisions about sample size, and addressing associated ethical concerns. While there are formal processes in academia relating to pre-fieldwork processes, the practicality and reality of negotiating the field, accessing participants, developing relationships, and maintaining trust is often an overlooked aspect entrusted to the researcher to work out these interstitial spaces. I examine my recent experience of fieldwork in three locations in regional Western Australia and reflect upon my practices of accessing participants, developing relationships of trust, and my insider/outsider position, to examine how I negotiated this interstitial space. These reflections provide an important understanding of the factors involved in recruiting participants for research.