Sometimes you really can just pack it up and move to a remote island in the South Pacific.

She called me one day and said,

would you be inclined to move to a place called Cura Bus?

And I quit my job three minutes later, called her back and said Kira what?

Coming up, Jay Martin Truse tells us about living in Karabas and Vanuatu and how he retraced

Robert Louis Stevenson's itinerary in the South Seas, and will consider how one of the world's

great wonders was built over millions of years by billions of tiny coral polyps.

We'll learn how people have interacted with the Great Barrier Reef for thousands of years

and the threats that changing climate brings to the reef and its inhabitants today.

And they called it the labyrinth, you know, the myth of the minitor, the great bull-headed beast

waiting to eat you and that's how they viewed it.

Ian McCalman tells us how our shifting relationship with the natural world is

impacting one of nature's great masterpieces.

There's a whole new world to explore in the hour ahead on travel with Rick Steve's.

There are thousands of remote islands and atolls in the Pacific that few of us have heard of much less visited.

It's home to scattered populations of Polynesians, Micronesians, Melanesians, and Austronesians.

Coming up today on Travel with Rick Steeves, we'll hear what living in Oceania taught author

J Martin Trust about himself and the

adventures he had traveling in the wake of Robert Louis Stevenson.

As you approach the East Coast of Australia,

the South Pacific becomes the coral sea.

It's home to the only living organism on Earth

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