Visual Diary

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an island life, is a good life to me.

After surprising our darling Sophie at the airport (it was her birthday a few days earlier), we boarded the flight to arrive in Cairns 3.5 hours later, for a 2 hour and 10 minute car ride to Mission beach, where our pre-ordered produce awaited for us to be picked up for a 35 min boat ride onto the island.

Our humble abode was very much of an all you need beach shack. An artist loft with an outdoor shower, next to the main suite with a beach front view, accompanied with a two story, two bedroom tree house (is the only way I can describe), tucked behind sweeping palms - real romantic.

No reception (unless you climbed on top of the nearest cliff), no restaurants, no distractions, minimal power, a whole lot of resting and a whole lot of just being.

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^ Above: This was taken after a morning of kayaking. I think the last time I attempted this activity was in 2007 on my first Summer school camp. We ended up kayaking around the whole of Bedarra Island, which took about 1.5 hrs. Soph and I on the Kayak, and Dan on the stand up paddle board (I don't know how he did this the whole way). Dan spotted the island's 4M crocodile as we past the mangroves.. thanking the gods that he didn't fall?