Waypoint & Co

A Collection

Hidden Islands

Islands the day-tripper crowd hasn't found — a private list of the ones worth the journey.

A small tropical island ringed with pale turquoise water, viewed from above.

The Great Barrier Reef holds nine hundred islands. Fewer than a dozen are open to visitors. The ones we keep returning to are the ones that ask something of you — a helicopter, a two-hour tender, an early start — and reward it with quiet.

  1. 01

    Haggerstone Island

    Far North Queensland

    Four huts, one family, a coral reef at the door.

  2. 02

    Wilson Island

    Southern Great Barrier Reef

    Nine tents, no phone signal, seabird colonies overhead.

  3. 03

    Satellite Island

    D'Entrecasteaux Channel, Tasmania

    A whole thirty-four-hectare island for eight guests. Cold, oyster-scented, perfect.

  4. 04

    Faraway Bay

    The Kimberley, WA

    Fly-in only, five bungalows above the Timor Sea.