Rent This Tasmanian Island

Rent out the lushly forested 76-acre Satellite Island and you get everything — the three-bedroom main house, with its squishy sofas and wood-burning stove, decorated in cream-hued linens and with branches of coral; the two-bedroom boat house, perched on the dock overlooking the bay; and the canvas tepee sheltering a queen-size bed — all to yourself. The Melbourne-based owners have transformed a family retreat into a getaway that fulfills every private-island fantasy; if requested, its helpful manager will light bonfires, dive for lobster and sea urchin and shuck freshly harvested oysters.

From “Into the Wild” by Hanya Yanagihara for the New York Times; Photo by Bonnie Savage (@bonniesavage)

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