Shakespeare's Spot

The acclaimed British novelist Nicholas Shakespeare describes it as "the only trek".

"If asked by the right person to nominate one of my favourite spots on earth, I would pause and, in my mind's eye, take a breath of sea-air from a long deserted beach on the Freycinet Peninsula," he writes. "I would try and describe a walk on white sand, past an island lagoon flecked with black swans, along a wattle-shaded track impressed by the pawmarks of wombats and devils … to a lodge concealed in the trees."

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