Travel + Leisure shares Alison Fox’s impassioned inspiration from a recent stay at luxury bolt-hole, Silky Oaks Lodge.

 “The sound of rushing water filled my ears as I perched on a small beach, eyes peeled for movement in the water, watching for signs of the elusive platypus. It was dusk in the Daintree Rainforest, the oldest tropical rain forest in the world, and I was sitting by the edge of a river, the air sticky and still.

That morning, I dove into the underwater world around the Great Barrier Reef before heading just a few minutes inland to check into the Silky Oaks Lodge, which made Travel + Leisure‘s editor-curated It List this year. Here, I stepped into another world completely, walking along a wooden path to the open-air lobby, surrounded by tropical greenery.” – Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure.

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