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ESCAPE To Patonga
About twelve years ago, I worked as a real estate photographer, living in Umina Beach just north of Sydney with my first wife. I took photos of houses for sale to agents. I shot everything from dilapidated fibre shacks to ten-million-dollar mansions. I loved the work because it combined my love of architecture and my creative skills as a photographer. With the freedom of working for myself and having the privilege of exploring some of the most impressive houses people only dream about living in, those six years were some of the most memorable of my life.
For one project, an agent rowed me across Patonga Creek to photograph a shack. Patonga is an idyllic seaside village and is exactly as I described throughout the story. I remember standing on the deck overlooking the water and thinking, “gee, wouldn’t this be a great place to escape to.” I completed the photo shoot and never gave it another thought.
A few years later when I sat down to think of a story for my seventh novel, I remembered the shack and added a second thought, “and imagine the intrigue and suspicion it would create in the villager if a strange guy stayed in that shack on the other side of the creek by himself during the off-season.”
Bang! There was my story. I saw it all in an instant.