PORUMA ISLAND RESORT
Torres Strait Islands
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| Poruma Island Resort - Isolated, Unspoilt and Luxurious |
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En route to Poruma, one of the string of palmy islands that the plane visits on its island-hopping journey through the Torres Strait, your pilot might suggest that you get out in order to stretch your legs and perhaps collect some mangoes. You will then spend several strange but deliriously wonderful minutes knocking fruit from the giant trees at the end of the runway, and depart with fingers sticky with juice. This is not your usual flight, but then these are not your usual islands. As soon as you leave Australia’s most northerly point at the tip of Cape York, there is a perceptible change in the scenery below. Against a malachite green sea, the islands of the Torres Strait are a series of stepping stones that join Australia with Papua New Guinea, each one trimmed with a narrow fringe of sugar-white sand that dissolves toward a halo of peacock blue that suggests a wealth of coral and exotic marine life. Poruma lies about midway along this island chain, is fairly typical of the inhabited islands – a narrow coral cay about two kilometres long with a village of about 200 toward its western end. The huts are situated on the western end of the island, the best location for beautiful sunsets. Islanders call this end ‘gaigalkuth’ which means ‘sunset end’. Getting there: Qantas flight from Cairns to Horn Island, then light aircraft to Poruma.
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