I thought very much the same as I do now. Society was facing some challenges and was on the brink of major calamity, he said. And here was a place of amazing beauty. Remoteness. Away from it all. I felt comfortable. Mr Berwick - who would go on to lead the Daintree Blockade in 1983 and serve as Douglas Shire Mayor for 16 years - bought land in 1971 with plans to return and build a life off-the-grid. It was never on his agenda to be a part of a movement towards hippie communes, although he would often hear of a place called Cedar Bay, north of Bloomfield.