Where better to start your voyage than Crescent Moon Bay on the East Coast of Australia? Here’s where Connor and Grace Tempest spent the first thirteen years of their lives, living with their dad, Dexter Tempest, the town’s lighthouse keeper.
As some of you may have guessed, I was inspired by the Australian coastal town of Byron Bay and the lighthouse at Cape Byron, which marks the most easterly point of the continent.
I should say though (especially to any Australians reading this!) that any resemblance to Byron Bay begins and ends with the topography! Byron Bay is a pretty idyllic spot, but Crescent Moon Bay is a dead-end town - the kind of place you wouldn’t want to linger any longer than you had to…
“Crescent Moon Bay was the smallest of towns and each of its inhabitants seemed bound to the others as tightly as stitches in a piece of knitting. Such a tight weave didn’t necessarily make for comfortable living. Gossip flowed faster through the bay than the rapids up at Crescent Moon Creek.”