I've never been a fan of camping. Sure, there's nature and open spaces and fresh air and all that, but I'd gladly take a fluffy hotel robe and cocktails at a swim-up bar any day of the week.
So when I was offered the chance to "glamp" on an island in the middle of Sydney as summer turned to autumn I was… sceptical.
After being handed a map, keys, and a battery powered lamp by security at the dock, we crossed the island to our two-person tend on Cockatoo Island's eastern banks. The view over the harbour back towards the city was divine, so we perched on camp chairs on the small deck to watch the sun set before taking a stroll around the island.
Inside the two-man tents. Image: Zakarij Kaczmarek
It's a fascinating place, and you'll find day-trippers and other glampers milling around on most days of the week. Formerly inhabited by the Eora people, the island became a penal colony in the mid-1850s, with most barracks and guardhouses – some of which still stand today – built by convicts serving sentences there.
In the decades that followed, Cockatoo Island served as everything from a reformatory and industrial school for girls to a naval shipbuilding and dockyard facility servicing ships of the Southwest Pacific during WWII. It was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2010 after decades of restoration work.
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