We’re 10 degrees from the Equator, and the sun is harsh. So harsh that it casts oasis-like heat waves over the tarmac as our tiny 36-seat Dash 8-100 touches down on Horn Island (Ngurapai to the Kaurareg people).
One of 274 drops of land comprising the Torres Strait archipelago, scattered like opaline stepping stones between the tip of Cape York Peninsula in Queensland and Papua New Guinea, this pocket of Australia is as wild as it is wonderful, preserved in a blissful tropical bubble that seems to shun
