 Looking out over Arthur Bay on Magnetic Island |
Christine Anu comes from the saltwater people and sings about her island home, growing up in a small beachfront community in the Torres Strait. But it’s not necessary for you to venture that far to escape the ever-increasing crowds at popular island destinations. Perhaps you’re looking for a simple little piece of paradise in a world becoming ever more technical and complicated? Perhaps you’d like to slow down and actually smell those roses? Or sniff the salty scent of the sea at dawn. To awake beneath a forest canopy and listen as the wildlife erupts into its own operatic chorus. Perhaps then you’re tempted to enjoy the carefree life of a castaway on an island?
Daniel Defoe wrote a fictional autobiography based on an English castaway named Robinson Crusoe, who spent 28 years on a remote tropical island. So, while you probably don’t have 28 years to spare, possibly you do have a week or so to meld into an island existence. Where days revolve around the setting of the sun and the rising of the tide. Where evenings are spent beneath the stars watching clouds skitter across the moon. Where shoes are discarded and the only footprints on the beach are likely to be your own.
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