But the enchanted island they would visit, like ancient Ireland, remains stubbornly out of reach.
"Did you, by any chance, come from an enchanted island?"
The story starts on an enchanted island where a magician called Prospero and his daughter live.
From the things you told me I believed these were the enchanted islands.
It looked so peaceful and wonderful that I could almost have cried, and yet it was only a tiny part of this small, enchanted island.
Feeling betrayed by his father, Arturo leaves the enchanted island for the mainland.
"After first leading 'em onto an enchanted island," added Dorothy.
He stood there for a while, looking out over the enchanted island, wondering what Fiona was up to right now.
But otherwise it's an enchanted and enchanting island - just a quiet, stylish.
Nor was there even an enchanted island on the horizon, let alone a sea to swim to safety in.