POSTCARDS | Corsica
The translucent water is the palest aquamarine, so clear you can see right through to the sand below, which is the colour of Champagne. A half-moon beach stretches before us, framed by violet hills fragrant with sage and juniper and thick with the serenade of cicadas. Just a 20-minute jetboat ride across a cobalt sea has brought us here to Plage de Saleccia on the Desert des Agriates, Corsica's largest protected wilderness area that is not a desert at all. It's a rocky scrubland of endemic maquis bush, which frames some of the most beautiful and unspoilt beaches in the Mediterranean.
EXPLORE THE UNEXPLORED
It's just one of my many discoveries on a recent exploration of the fourth-largest island in the Mediterranean. Most Australians know next to nothing about Corsica, but my French friends have been telling
