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EDITOR’S LETTER

We acknowledge the Gimuy Walubarra Yidinji and Yirrganydji as the Traditional Owners of the area today known as Cairns.
We pay our respects to their rich and evolving culture and continuing connection to the land.

It seems the Tropic team is hankering to
travel again. That’s if our responses to Luckily, worldly people are very good at researching – fact-based,
the question below is anything to go by. practical, sensible research that ensures they do what they need
There’s something about experiencing to do to keep their travels enriching and themselves safe.
new sights, cultures, tastes, people I’m also looking forward to welcoming visitors back to our own
and political systems that satisfies our hometown, armed with my brightest smile and helpful local
curiosity and keeps life interesting. advice. There’s definitely a sense of pride behind this altruism,
Travel also gets us out of our comfort and perhaps a smidge of smugness that we live in a pretty special
zones, challenging us to adapt to new places and people and deal part of world. Bring on the homesickness, I say.
with crises when they emerge (I’ve certainly found myself in some Happy and safe travels!
hairy situations!).
It breeds understanding of other ways of life and ideologies,
forcing people to look beyond their own self-interests and
embrace empathy and compassion. There’s a reason that Renee Cluff
travellers are known as ‘worldly’. The Oxford Dictionary
describes a worldly person as one who has a lot of life experience,
who’s sophisticated, savvy, perceptive and cultured, and is not The Tropic Now website has had well over
easily shocked. Basically, the opposite of sheltered, which 1.5 million
breeds naivety and a lack of resilience, leading to
misunderstanding and mistrust. unique page views over the past 12 months.
We’re about to reconnect with the rest of the globe, but it’s GO THERE: tropicnow.com.au
certainly going to be a brave new world as the pandemic lingers.

If money was no object, how would you spend your time?

Leah Renee Annabel Cat Alana Melissa
Six months living by Constantly Operating a Travelling all over Designing Living on acreage
a lake, swimming, travelling. Probably second-hand the world. I’d buy exclusively for with a big veggie
rowing, cooking via boat, eating lots clothes store a sailboat and charities important garden and lots of
and reading, then of fresh-caught fish with books, plants spend downtime to me. Part-time. animals, trying to
six months in an and on land, local and good coffee. in a home near the Living on a boat. be self-sustainable.
apartment in Beirut, street food. Writing stories in ocean, creating and Make art.
Lebanon. my spare time. gardening.

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