‘I sailed into the sunset with my pirate!’
When images of bikini-clad 19-year-old Terrie Ridgway living alone on a remote Queensland island surfaced in the early 1960s, it led to an international media circus.
Terrie, who had quit her nine-to-five job in Brisbane to live off-grid in a beach hut on an island on the Great Barrier Reef, was dubbed Australia’s “Girl Robinson Crusoe” and became an instant celebrity.
But just as
