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The aquatic life on Haggerstone is simply amazing for Keywords your island holiday, shipwrecks, beach combing for WW2 artifacts, snorkeling, and the fishing and complemented by a wonderful yet simple mouth watering cuisine featuring all fresh natural foods. The incredible remoteness of Haggerstone ensures an experience very rare on this planet.

If you value absolute simplicity above all else - no maids, TV, mobile phones, computers, mirrors or egos, this is it. The island only Accessible only by air to a neighboring island, it is an incredibly remote and unspoiled Robinson Crusoe retreat approximately 600 kilometers north from Cairns, and a few miles from a wild stretch of the northern Great Barrier Reef mainland coast.

Cast away in the remote regions of Far North Queensland, Haggerstone Island turns the notion of fictional paradise into reality. 600kms north of Cairns, adjacent to the virtually uninhabited coast, near the tip of Cape York, the island lies in a region where man barely exists.

Haggerstone Island is perfect for your island holiday, Haggerstone Island Accommodation Main Building Haggerstone Island Even amid the magnificent island resorts of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef; Haggerstone is an extraordinary island experience offering the ultimate in intimacy and privacy.

Getting to Haggerstone Island is an adventure in itself. You can either travel to the remote island by seaplane and skid to stop on its shores, or you can charter a plane and land on a neighbouring island’s airstrip, then take a 15-minute boat ride to Haggerstone.

This beautiful hideaway, sitting in the Coral Sea, is a dream come true for Roy and Anna Turner. When they purchased it in 1985, it was in its natural state and they spent six years tearing through the jungle to create their timber pole house. In 1990, they designed and hand-crafted more huts, bringing in the building materials by small boats and barges. In 1994, the three huts were ready to welcome guests. Each can sleep up to four and a maximum of eight guests are catered for at any one time. The feeling of living on a deserted island remains intact.

The huts have conical roofs, the walls are shutters, the huge beds have crisp cotton sheets and each has a slate-floored bathroom with shower and toilet, small kitchen, refrigerator and sink. There are sundecks just right for sitting and soaking in views of the turquoise lagoon, the Coral Sea and uninhabited islands.

The surrounding waters are chock-full of the most wonderful array of fish. Originally the majority of their visitors were fishing enthusiasts. Now people from all sorts of backgrounds are discovering what Haggerstone has to offer. The food, with its freshness and simplicity, is certainly an enormous enticement.

Apart from taking advantage of the bounty of seafood at their front door, the Turners grow wonderful fruit, vegetables and herbs and put them to delicious use.

The main building is spacious with open sides to take advantage of the cooling breezes. It has a main kitchen, two bathrooms, a dining area and extensive library. There is a deck with an open fire, and that is where the evening meal is prepared most of the time.

The island is a great place for bird watching. It is home to sun birds, pigeons, honey eaters, eagles, kingfishers, finches, jungle fowl and doves. You can snorkel, scuba or fish, inspect the shipwrecks, swim around the pristine coral gardens or comb the beach for WWII artifacts.

The Turners have a seven-meter twin engine catamaran, and a seven-meter and a six-meter fiberglass long boat available for fishing, diving and exploration. Within a 60km radius there are thousands of reefs making up the largest protected marine park in the world.

Haggerstone is a truly unique and breathtaking place - a small complex of tropical timber buildings, gardens, orchard and dams; set amidst true wilderness country, teeming with fish and bird life and surrounded by some of the most wonderful pristine coral gardens in the world. Catering for a small numbers of guests (6-8) you will live well, eat well and as one guest put it “survive in style”, Haggerstone provides a unique base from which to ramble or explore.

The island was a jungle covered, uninhabited and hundreds of miles from what we know as civilization. They were not to know they were to spend nearly six years alone on the island, as they set out to create a Robinson Crusoe style abode in the wild. Haggerstone Island is their home and an Island Guesthouse, where they welcome you to this island paradise on your North Queensland getaway. what are you waiting for? go there and found your island holiday

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