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home schooled for 12 years of my life. Anyway this island is a major tourist trap, mostly Japanese people visiting during the day, and returning to Cairns at around 5pm, however some tourists stay overnight in the resort. After all the tourists had left for the day, my father, brother and I used to hang around near the end of the wharf and just relax or swim. One afternoon my father told me about a tourist who was staying
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in the resort who had drowned off the end of the wharf one afternoon, and no-one was around to help him because the last boat had left for the
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day. My father found him a few hours later when he was on his afternoon walk. He said for days after that he didn't return to the wharf, to horrified about what had happened, but one afternoon, after all the tourists had left, my dad decided to take a walk. he told me how he sat at the end of the wharf for awhile, just thinking about the poor man who had drowned. he said there was no wind that day, even though the papers
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