An otherworldly landscape of brooding mountains, powdery beaches and wild forest, Tasmania’s Freycinet Peninsula is an ecologist’s paradise. The best way to experience it? On a luxe guided hike.
THERE’S A MOMENT, SUBMERGED IN THE GIN-CLEAR WATERS SURROUNDING SCHOUTEN Island, when I begin to understand why a growing number of physicians prescribe patients doses of wilderness, rather than pills. The ocean is frigid, so cold it’s like a thousand pins pricking against my skin. But when I surface and the sun hits my face, I feel like someone has taken the glasses off my nose and polished them for the first time. We’re swimming at
