Dunk Island

After a series of mishaps, Garrett and I finally landed on Dunk Island. A couple of these mishaps include Garrett losing his passport right before customs and us nearly missing our puddle jumper to the island because our flight was delayed.



The puddle jumper was another first—I’ve never flown in a plane that tiny (see how well Garrett fits) or been flown by someone who looks like he just graduated from high school. They start the trip by showing you a life vest that inflates and making sure you know how to use it. Not “in case of emergency landing”, just “You should know how to use this.” Confidently, I stepped on to this rickety old thing.



We did make it safely and landed on a little slice of paradise. It was approximately a thousand degrees with 500% humidity, so you can imagine how hot that was. Garrett will explain here:


Unfortunately the water in the pool had also been nicely heated by the sun, so it was lukewarm and we were supposed to only enter the ocean at our own risk of jellyfish bites. Regardless, it was lovely and who can complain about being in the middle of such a beautiful slice of the earth? Garrett keeps saying he feels like we are in the middle of the lost and the island does feel like that or Robinson Caruso.

At the end of the day we took a stroll on the beach at sunset (quite romantic for a brother and sister) where I snapped some lovely photos and then we headed in to dinner.



Once we were seated, the waitress gave us our menus and Garrett opened his, took a look at words like Vicchyssois salad and said, ‘I have no idea what to do with this.” He has recently informed me that even with his upper middle class upbringing he is actually inherently or genetically blue collar, which certainly accounted for his confusion around the menu options.



We were delighted however to discover that the food was delicious. Before coming I had read on a blog that the food at Dunk Island was terrible and that they only served nasty fish and chips. We have had other service issues and problems with the resort but I will say all the food we’ve eaten has been quite delicious.