Tasmanian author Robbie Arnott spent idyllic childhood summers at his family's beach shack at the mouth of the Tamar River — kanamaluka — on the state's north coast.
He and his cousins spent long summer days outdoors, swimming, riding their bikes, and roaming the sand dunes and the surrounding bush – a part of his youth Arnott took for granted.
"I always thought that it was normal, but I guess it's not normal for everybody," he says.
