The night sky is something to behold in the middle of nowhere. I'd never seen so many stars. While I was looking up, awestruck and humbled, Roxy urged me to follow. Cane toads skedaddled as her torch lit the way via a narrow bush track. The property, Roxy told me, had been a compound for a religious cult then an eco-tourist retreat before lying vacant for several years. Earlier in the century it had been…