Sealand: On the Heap

Approaching Sealand. Photo: Simon Sellars.
Originally published in The Australian, 10 November 2007.
THE room has no windows. It is dank, pitch-black and deathly still. I’ve lost all spatial co-ordinates. I hear a distant, dull hissing, like soil leaking through a coffin lid. Before the lights went out, I noticed the ram’s skull above my bed. It [...]