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ISLAND LIFE

WITH A FULL HEART I’m writing this to you from North Stradbroke Island, a sand island in Queensland’s Moreton Bay. The local Quandamooka people call it Minjerribah, which means ‘island in the sun’. It’s just turned spring, though it always feels like summer over here.

People like to keep Stradbroke Island a secret. It’s a haven — for people and nature. Being here feels wild.

People say the island feels this way because a planned

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