THE WEEKEND AUSTRALIAN TRAVEL + LUXURY JUNE 2023

THE WEEKEND AUSTRALIAN TRAVEL + LUXURY JUNE 2023

“It’s early morning and the sky is lowering a grey curtain over the peaks of Rinca Island as our tender boat bumps across the bay towards a deserted beach. There are no other vessels to be seen, no winking lights of habitation on the shore. A lone raptor patrols overhead but there is no birdsong. It feels wild and unexplored in this corner of the eastern Indonesian archipelago and who knows what the clouds are concealing in those forested hills.”