I was once stranded on a desert island

I was "actually" stranded on a desert island.

well... one part of it really, it is quite a large desert island.
i lived on this desert island for 24 years, accepted (but not totally) by a tribe of locals calling themselves Australians.
after learning their language, and some of their barbaric rituals, i started to plan my escape
this was made difficult by the worthlessness (in global terms) of the shells they traded as currency,and the geographic isolation of the island.
but never the less, i prevailed!

....only to find that i missed parts of the island.

There is an Island off the coast of a chain of islands off the western coast of Scotland. The chain I am referring to is called The Outer Hebridies and the small Island that I am talking about is called Taransae.

It was evacuated in the early 1960's, the population had become too small to sustain itself. They were moved onto Mull. A few years back myself and a girl went and hitched a ride onto the island with a couple of scallop divers.

There we were, alone on a deserted island facing the North Atlantic during the summer solstice. We had arranged to be picked up by the divers five days from the time we arrived, but for those five days it was absolute isolation. We set up camp in a bothy, would walk the beaches, read the rhyme of the ancient mariner to each other, have great sex.

One day we walked along a beach that was pink. It turned out into the ocean cusping away from the land. I looked down and saw that the colour came from the shells of crabs. Ground to sand, standing there on top of the shells of millions of crabs, returning slowly to the ocean.

Tree trunks stripped bare lay on the ocean side of the island, shoes from across Europe reaching their final destination. A boat, a catamaran split in two in the centre of the Island. The desolation was sobering.