John and Bev O’Brien left Sydney in search of a different way of living, and in 2009, that search took them to Three Hummock Island, a remote State Reserve off Tasmania’s north-west coast, where they spent the next nine years managing accommodation and helping care for the island. The couple had no permanent neighbours nearby and lived with the practical limits of an island that could only be reached by small boat, light aircraft or helicopter.

John and Bev O’Brien left Sydney in search of a different way of living, and in 2009, that search took them to Three Hummock Island, a remote State Reserve off Tasmania’s…

In 1951, an English couple moved with their four children to a remote island in Bass Strait, off north-west Tasmania, to build a life far from mainland routines. John and Eleanor…