IF YOU HAVE A WEEKEND
Hamilton Island
It’s the moment your entire body exhales: floating over the Whitsundays’ 74 coral-fringed islands, set in a jewel-coloured sea, then coming in to land on Hamilton Island. A place where you can trade emails, fluorescent lighting and warp-speed schedules for waving palms, abundant reefs and hours spent lazing by the sea, as life goes into slow motion.
Set right at the heart of the Great Barrier Reef, Hamilton is the only island in the Whitsundays with its own commercial airport, making it the perfect weekend escape for Australians—and, it seems, the international jet set, too. Musician George Harrison built a home here (Google it, it’s magnificent), while everyone from Oprah to Taylor Swift, to Leonardo DiCaprio have all spent time on the island.…
