Seafaring luck: The Weekend Australian Magazine shines on Lord Howe
Lord Howe Island enjoyed a starring role in the Weekend Australian glossy magazine this month as part of an annual tourism special edition. The cover image featuresthe sublime horizon pool at Capella with its postcard views to the turquoise lagoon and Mts Gower and Lidgbird.
Weekend Australian Magazine
With words by Graham Lloyd and great images by Vanessa Hunter, the Lord Howe story begins,
‘From the sundeck plunge pool at Lord Howe Island’s Capella Lodge the clouds hug the towering cliffs of Mt Gower, soaring from a cobalt blue sea in a vision that is more Hawaii than Pacific island NSW. It is the ideal place to contemplate the fortunes of island guide Jack Shick and his great-grand father Nathan Thompson, who was blessed with the sort of seafaring luck so impossibly good it is difficult to believe. En route to Lord Howe in 1853, Nathan’s ship chanced upon a canoe containing five Micronesian beauties, one a princess, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Naturally, one became his wife…’
Read the rest of this great island tale at http://lordhowe.com/press/AustralianMagazineMarch20117517.pdf
