I escaped to a DESERT ISLAND

When June Nelson married her husband, Bryan, in 1960, she didn’t expect to end up castaway on a desert island. Bryan was a zoology student and they spent three years studying gannets on the Bass Rock, an island in Scotland. Cramped in a garden shed, ‘crouched in fish-stinking mud’ wasn’t the early years of married life June had envisaged, so when Bryan was offered funding to study the tropical booby bird, 600 miles off the coast of Ecuador, they were delighted.

The trip would mean them spending a year in isolation on two uninhabited islands