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Happiness comes the way the wind blows. - Mikhail Lermontov The number one internet search for us over the last week has been the South...

Easing Restrictions

"Ze plane, ze plane" - Tattoo, Fantasy Island We got a much needed re stock recently when parks staff and contractors flew in to do some...

Paparazzi

I'm making notes for a book. It's to be a chronicle of our adventures on the island... I think it's a book people will want to buy, don't...

Facing Fears

"Pull yourself together, Teddy. Pull yourself together". - Teddy, Shutter Island Above: Hanging on the whim cart (horse powered) that was...

Beautiful One Day, Wild The Next.

Above: Storm rolling in. "I think of the light here like that, like a splinter of a star that’s fallen to earth: it just shines, no...

Utopia

"We can't have kids stealing and just running wild. We're going to have to have stricter rules and hand out demerits... I guess". -...

Self Isolation

"We are fugitives of the law. Idiocy is our only option". - Sam Daniels, Outbreak Above: Hanging out front of the museum, one of the...

On Island Time

To Hell with your bathing costumes! You don't wear them when you have a bath, do you? - Paddy Button, Blue Lagoon Above: Looking north...

Chicken Soup

"Call the mainland. Tell them to send the damn helicopters" - Dr Alan Grant, Jurassic Park 7am, Day 3 – we were woken with a thud at the...

I Think We're Alone Now

"leave us alone on this solitary place, let us be content; and rejoice that we are all together in safety.” - Father, The Swiss Family...

Where Everybody Knows Your Name

"There may be no secrets in small towns, but there are no strangers either" R.A. Mathis After 5 days on Flinders Island we have well and...

And So It Begins...

"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing." --Benjamin Franklin I have set up this page in an attempt to...

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