Jeremy Clarke Jeremy Clarke

The death of my desert-island fantasy

The coral was a bleached ossuary, the trees dead, dying and burnt

issue 11 January 2020

I was on the back seat of a golf buggy being driven down to the marina from my beachside villa through grossly exotic tropical gardens. From the many seaside and sporting activities the resort had to offer, I had opted this morning for the ‘island adventure’. I would be whisked away by speedboat and deposited on a desert island to snorkel or relax, then picked up again two hours later.

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