A once-in-a-generation opportunity to own your own island has landed in the form of the 40-acre Puncheon Island in the Furneaux group of islands in Bass Strait. Accessible only by boat or helicopter, Puncheon Island is the perfect place to escape the everyday or to create your own legend. This private, freehold island is a delightful contrast of granite outcrops and meadow. From the original title granted in 1853, inhabitants have used the island's natural resources to live in harmony with what can only be described as a sanctuary. Drystone walls built as windbreaks for sheep cast reflections on a bygone era while adding a purposeful divide across tussock grass paddocks.
The small, sandy beach boasts a new stone and timber wharf where, if you're patient, you could catch flathead or whiting for dinner, perhaps paired with oysters off the south coast of the island. As you meander around your shores, you take in the beauty of Cape Barren Island just 500m south, the volcano-shaped Vansittart Island to the n
