In today’s world, you don’t get an opportunity to be truly on your own—physically separated. You can be in the woods, but then there is a road, and you know how sound travels. On Bird Island, it’s so quiet. You go out six miles from the mainland, from humanity. It’s an extremely strong bonding experience. I think what’s happening is that there’s a sense there that, boy, it is us against the sea. Because it’s all around you. Now, it’s extremely shallow and pristine and beautiful and so forth, so it’s not omnipresent in a dangerous sense. However, it’s definitely very introspective. Boy, we are all on our own.
From “The Impossible AirBnB” in Esquire by Fred Arbona, host of Bird Island, with average reservations at 457 days in advance of the check-in date; Photo by Arbona
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